Chapter 18 Flashcards
Negotiations between management and workers for better conditions
Collective Bargaining
Extreme reporting style of some newspapers during the late 1800s
Yellow Journalism
A center that offered help to the poor
Settlement House
Henry Ford’s manufacturing process where a product is put together as it moves along a belt. This process made cars more affordable.
Assembly Line
A business owned by many investors
Corporation
The process of becoming part of another culture.
Assimilation
Someone who starts a new business
Entrepreneur
A company that controls nearly all of an industry
Monopoly
A building divided into tiny apartments, usually for the very poor.
Tenement
An economic system with privately owed business.
Free Enterprise
Created the trans-Atlantic communication by telegraph
Cyrus Fields
Invented the talking machine
Thomas Edison
Established a settlement house in Chicago
Jane Adams
Control the oil industry
John D. Rockefeller
Invented the flying machine
Wright Brothers
Published the New York World newspaper
Joseph Pulitzer
Controlled the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Improved the steel making process
Henry Bessemer
Organized the AFL (one of the first unions)
Samuel Gompers
Production method made cars cheaper
Henry Ford
