Across
- 6. Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages.
- 7. Type of monopoly where a company buys out all of its competition. Ex. Rockefeller
- 10. Process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply
- 11. Production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks
- 12. Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history
- 14. American buisness man leader who controlled the new york central railroad and up to 4.500 miles of track
- 17. Graham Bell Inventor of the telephone
- 18. labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on broad social reforms
- 21. practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change a raw material into a finished product
- 22. law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses
- 23. an 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States
- 24. railroad Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west
- 25. leader of the American Federation of Labor
Down
- 1. (IWW) Union of radicals and socialists nicknamed the Wobblies
- 2. The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
- 3. (AFL) a national organization of labor unions founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers
- 4. Most prominent organizer in the women's labor movement
- 5. Movement of people from rural areas to cities
- 8. Edison Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations
- 9. An economic system based on private property and free enterprise.
- 13. Complete control of a product or business by one person or group
- 15. one of the 24 regions or divisions of the globe approximately coinciding with meridians at successive hours from the observatory at Greenwich, England.
- 16. A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business.
- 19. Owners and managers of large industrial enterprises who wielded extraordinary political and economic power
- 20. A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.