Vocab Quiz Chap 18 Flashcards
Patent
A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention
Assembly line
A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as a moves along a belt
Entrepreneur
Someone who sets up business to make a profit
Corporation
Business owned by many investors
Monopoly
A company that controls most are all businesses in a particular industry
Free enterprise
The system in which privately owned business compete freely
Collective bargaining
Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
Urbanization
The rapid growth of city populations
Tenement
Buildings divided and many tiny apartments
Settlement house
A center offering help to the urban poor
Steerage
Large compartments that usually held cattle
Assimilation
The process of becoming part of another culture
Anarchists
A person who opposes all forms of government
Compulsory education
The requirement that children attend school up to a certain age
Realists
Writers who try to show life as it is
Yellow journalism
To describe the sensational reporting style of the New York world and other papers
Thomas Edison
Invented the lightbulb, the photograph and the motion picture camera
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor, scientist, and engineer
Henry Ford
Invented the assembly line
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Designed, built, and flew the first airplane
Andrew Carnegie
Found the Carnegie steel company in 1892
John D Rockfeller
American industrialist, founder of the standard oil company
Samuel Gompers
Founded the American Federal location of labor
Jane Adams
Social reformer, and activist
Mark Twain
American humorous, novelist and travel writer
Joseph Pulitzer
American newspaper, editor, and publisher, who helped to establish the pattern of modern paper
