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Week 11
The Industrial Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| enterprise | a business or company |
| meddling | to interfere with something |
| floodgates | to hold back the outpouring of something |
| financially | having to do with money |
| monopoly | only one seller of a good or service |
| labor | work force |
| tracts | plots of land |
| influence | to have an effect on someone or something |
| panic | uncontrollable fear, to be very upset |
| trust | an organization or company managed by stockholders |
| resources | natural materials that can be used to make things |
| smelter | a factory that extracts metal from its ore |
| free enterprise | a system in which companies are allowed to buy, sell, and trade with little control by the government |
| holding company | a company whose main business is owning more than half of another company's stock |