Across
- 2. An inventor who used electricity in various ways and invented the light bulb.
- 4. A business owned by investors who buy shares of stock
- 8. A company that has completed control over an entire industry
- 9. A law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade.
- 10. Belief that the “survival of the fittest” theory decided which people would succeed in business and life in general.
- 12. A period of rapid growth in machines in manufacturing and production starting in the mid 1700s
- 17. An inventor of the telephone and telephone service.
- 20. An organization of workers joining together to work for better wages, shorter hours and better working conditions.
- 21. A person who starts and organizes a business venture
Down
- 1. (ex. Mechanical Reaper)
- 3. Workers acting together to negotiate with management
- 5. Buying out or merging withcompeting companies in the same industry
- 6. Captain of Oil Industry
- 7. Exclusive right to make or sell inventions, allowed inventors to protect their inventions from being stolen by others
- 11. Reduced labor needs and increased overall
- 13. Captain of Railroad and Shipping Industry
- 14. Captain of the Automobile Industry
- 15. A place where workers labored long hours underpoor conditions for low wages.
- 16. Another word for countryside (or agricultural) and low populated area.“Outside of town”
- 18. Another word for city or densely (highly)populated area. *many buildings
- 19. Captain of the Steel Industry