Across
- 3. Railroad built after the Civil War. Joined at Promitory point, Utah
- 6. Free from government control
- 7. New Jersey village west of New York City where Thomas Edison established the world's first industrial laboratory in 1876
- 10. Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
- 14. inventor of the first practical electric light bulb
- 15. A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller
- 16. A jointly owned company that issues stock.
- 17. Stronger business people would prosper
- 18. American writer of inspirational adventure books about working boys
- 21. An economic system based on private ownership of businesses
- 22. built a lightweight airplane that used a small, gas-powered engine
- 23. Controlled the oil industry with vertical and horizontal integration
- 24. Improved the steel making method so steel could be produced in one day
- 25. patented the telephone
Down
- 1. A company attempts to own or control all steps of the production process
- 2. exclusive rights to make or sell inventions
- 4. buy shares and get a percentage of the corporation's profits
- 5. Robber baron who made his fortune steel making
- 8. a piece of business to have participation in it
- 9. invented a way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron
- 11. First to drill oil with a steam engine in PA
- 12. Made his fortune by designing and building sleeper cars that made long distance rail travel more comfortable
- 13. Who invented the railway air brake
- 19. Found oil in Texas during 1901 which started the Texas oil boom
- 20. Controlled the railroad and shipping industry
- 24. An integration company attempts to control an industry by buying out the competition