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Mannix SS Chapter 18
Industry and Urban Growth
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| patent | document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention |
| Thomas Edison | inventor of the light bulb and other devices |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| Henry Ford | made the automobile |
| assembly line | manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | invented airplane |
| entrepreneur | someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit |
| corporation | businesses owned by many investors |
| monopoly | company that controls most or all business in a particular industry |
| Andrew Carnegie | gained control of the steel industry |
| John D. Rockefeller | invested in the oil business |
| trust | group of corporations run by a single board of directors |
| free enterprise | system in which privately owned businesses compete freely |
| Samuel Gompers | formed a union called the AFL |
| collective bargaining | unions negotiate with management for workers as a group |
| urbanization | rapid growth of city populations |
| tenement | buildings divided into many tiny apartments |
| Jane Addams | reformer that works for poor city dwellers |
| settlement house | center offering help to the urban poor |
| steerage | large compartments that usually held cattle |
| assimilation | process of becoming part of another culture |
| anarchist | person who opposes all forms of gov't |
| compulsory education | the requirement that children attend school up to a certain age |
| realist | writers who try to show life as it is |
| Mark Twain | author who wrote Huckleberry Fin |
| Joseph Pulitzer | created the first modern, mass-circulation newspaper |
| yellow journalism | style of reporting and displaying news in a sensational way that distorts the truth |
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