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Vocab Quiz Chap 18 Flashcards

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Patent

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A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention

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Assembly line

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A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as a moves along a belt

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Entrepreneur

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Someone who sets up business to make a profit

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Corporation

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Business owned by many investors

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Monopoly

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A company that controls most are all businesses in a particular industry

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Free enterprise

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The system in which privately owned business compete freely

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Collective bargaining

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Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group

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Urbanization

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The rapid growth of city populations

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Tenement

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Buildings divided and many tiny apartments

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Settlement house

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A center offering help to the urban poor

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Steerage

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Large compartments that usually held cattle

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Assimilation

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The process of becoming part of another culture

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Anarchists

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A person who opposes all forms of government

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Compulsory education

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The requirement that children attend school up to a certain age

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Realists

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Writers who try to show life as it is

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Yellow journalism

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To describe the sensational reporting style of the New York world and other papers

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Thomas Edison

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Invented the lightbulb, the photograph and the motion picture camera

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Inventor, scientist, and engineer

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Henry Ford

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Invented the assembly line

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Wilbur and Orville Wright

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Designed, built, and flew the first airplane

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Andrew Carnegie

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Found the Carnegie steel company in 1892

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John D Rockfeller

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American industrialist, founder of the standard oil company

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Samuel Gompers

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Founded the American Federal location of labor

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Jane Adams

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Social reformer, and activist

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Mark Twain

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American humorous, novelist and travel writer

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Joseph Pulitzer

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American newspaper, editor, and publisher, who helped to establish the pattern of modern paper

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