Chapter 18- Vocabulary Flashcards
Assembly line
It is in manufacturing method in which a product is put to gather moves along a belt
Patent
Document giving the right to only one person to sell or make an item
Entrepreneur
Someone who sets up a new business to make a profit
Corporation
This is the businesses owned by many investors
Monopoly
A company that controls most or all businesses in a particular industry
Free enterprise
A system in which private owned businesses compete freely
Collective-bargaining
Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
Urbanization
Growth of city populations
Tenements
Building is divided into many tiny apartments
Settlement house
A settlement offering to help the urban poor
Steerage
Large compartments that usually held cattle
Assimilation
The process of becoming part of another culture
Anarchist
A person who opposes all forms of government
Compulsory education
An acquirement the children attend school up to a certain age
Realist
Writers who tried to show her life as it is