| A | B |
|---|
| patents | licences to make, use or sell an invention |
| productivity | the amount of goods or services created in a given period |
| Samuel Morse | perfected the telegraph and its messaging system |
| Transcontinental Railroads | created time zones to help with schedules |
| Henry Bessemer | developed a new process for making steel |
| mass production | production in great amounts |
| Washington Roebling | credited for building the Brooklyn Bridge |
| Robber Barons | make a fortune from stealing from the public |
| Captains of Industry | served their nations by expanding big business |
| social Darwinism | idea of survival of the fittest in society |
| monopoly | complete control of a product or service |
| Haymarket Square | Chicago place where workers and police rioted |
| Edwin Drake | first to strike oil through a well |
| trust | different companies run by the same board of directors |
| horizontal consolidation | bringing together similar companies in the same buisness |
| vertical consolidation | gaining control of many different buisnesses that make up all phases of a product's development |
| injunction | A court order to stop an action like a strike |
| division of labor | most often seen in the factory where different components of a product is produced by different people |
| Socialism | favored public control of big business |
| Scabs | replacement workers |
