| A | B |
|---|
| Industrial Revolution | change from hand made to machine made |
| urbanization | growth of large cities |
| CEO | chief executive officer |
| monopoly | total control of a business |
| New York Stock Exchange | known as the "Big Board" |
| stock broker | buys stocks for an individual |
| proprietorship | individual owns a business |
| corporation | owners are shareholders |
| dividend | company's profits paid to shareholders |
| free silver | caused inflation or cheap money |
| NASDAQ | stock exchange where latest technology corporations are found |
| Dow Jones | Gives the trend or direction of stock prices |
| P/E Ratio | number that shows that a corporation is making money |
| Australian ballot | secret voting |
| bull market | stock market is rising |
| partnership | two or more persons own a business |
| overproduction by farmers | use of new farm implements |
| laissez faire | government's policy toward business before 1880 |
| rugged individualism | frontier idea that a person should make his own way |
| Horatio Alger Myth | hard work and faithfulness = wealth |
| Gilded Age | name given by Mark Twain to this time period |
| Social Darwinism | nature is in a constant struggle of survival of the fittest |
| graduated income tax | taxes income on how much you make |
| result of Industrial Revolution | social, political and economic problems |
| William Jennings Bryan | pushed for free silver |
| rapid urbanization | result of industrialization |
