december9th SS vocab
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| lewis latimer | African American inventor who played a key role in improving practical electrical lighting
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| thomas edison | inventor of the electric lightbulb and many other devices
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| alexander graham bell | inventor of the telephone
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| john d. rockefeller | founder of the standard oil trust
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| robber baron | a business leader who became wealthy through dis honest methods
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| andrew carnegie | built u.s. steel industry
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| gilded age | late 1800s era of fabulous wealth
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| patents | government documents giving an inventor of the exclusive right to make and sell an invention for a specific number of years
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| corporation | a business owned by investors who buy part of it through shares of stock
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| monopoly | business that gains control of an industry by eliminating other competitors
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| trust | a legal body created to hold stock in many companies, often within an industry
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| business cycle | the pattern of good and bad economic times
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| shareholder | an investor who buys part of a company through shares of stock
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| depression | a period of low economic activity
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