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
Yellow journalism
People describe the sensational reporting style of the NYC world and other newspapers
Trust
Group of corporations run by a single board of directors
