Across
- 6. Taxes.
- 11. Consolidating many firms into the same business.
- 13. To own complete control of a product or service.
- 17. Allowed companies to reduce costs and charge higher prices to competitors.
- 19. People who invest money in a product or enterprise in order to make a profit.
- 20. Allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulations.
Down
- 1. A grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time.
- 2. Used to oversee railroad operations.
- 3. bridges in which the roadway is suspended but steel cables.
- 4. Communities owned by the business and rented out to the employees.
- 5. Steel tycoon.
- 7. When a number of people share the ownership of a business.
- 8. A term used to say that people with wealth are the most fit for it.
- 9. Oil tycoon.
- 10. A process developed for purifying iron.
- 12. Inventor of the light bulb in 1880.
- 14. Outlawed any trust that operated "in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states."
- 15. The ability to produce large quantities of the product quickly and inexpensively.
- 16. Hot, dark, small workhouses.
- 18. When businesses making the same product agree to limit their production and thus keep prices high.