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Ind Rev Vocab Review
Industrial Revolution Vocabulary Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Patent | A document that gives someone the sole right to make and to sell an invention |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | Two brothers that tested a gas-powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903 |
| Thomas Edison | An inventor who created the light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera |
| Entrepreneur | Someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit |
| Andrew Carnegie | His companies owned iron mines, railroads, and shipping lines. In 1892, he combined his businesses into a giant steel company. |
| Corporation | A business that is owned by many investors |
| Trust | A group of corporations run by a single board of directors |
| John D. Rockefeller | Entrepreneur who invested in an oil refinery and used the profits to buy other oil companies. In 1882, he ended competition by forming the Standard Oil Trust. |
| Monopoly | A company that controls all or nearly all businesses in a particular industry |
| Assembly Line | A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a conveyor belt. |
| Alexander Graham Bell | He invented the telephone in order to carry the human voice. |
| Henry Ford | He perfected a system to mass-produce cars and make them available at a lower price. |
| Free Enterprise | Economic system in which each privately owned business decides what to produce, how much to produce, and what prices to charge |
| Collective Bargaining | Negotiations between company management and a union representing a group of workers about wages, benefits, and working conditions |
| Yellow Journalism | Style of reporting and displaying news in a sensational way that distorts the truth |
| Steerage | Large compartments of ships that usually held cattle |
| Tenements | A building that is divided into many tiny compartments |
| Mark Twain | His real name is Samuel Clemens and he wrote Huckleberry Finn. He made his stories realistic by capturing the speech patterns of southerners who lived and worked along the Mississippi River. |
| Assimilation | The process of becoming part of another culture |
| Jane Adams | She felt strong sympathy for the poor and created a settlement house (Hull House) or center that offered help to the urban poor in 1889. |
| Anarchist | A person who opposes all forms of government |
| Compulsory Education | Requirement that all children attend school up to a certain age |
| Samuel Gompers | In 1886, he formed a new union in Columbus, Ohio, called the American Federation of Labor, or AFL. |
| Realist | Writers who try to show life as it is. |
| Urbanization | Rapid growth of city populations |
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