| A | B |
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| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| Thomas Edison | improved the light bulb and invented the phonograph |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | invented the first airplane |
| investor | person who gives money to a business or project, hoping to make a profit |
| Frank and Charles Duryea | built the first working automobile |
| Andrew Carnegie | produced steel in Pittsburgh |
| John D. Rockefeller | built oil refineries |
| George Westinghouse | formed a new electric company using AC current |
| corporation | business owned by investors |
| stock | a share of a company that is sold to an investor |
| monopoly | a company that has control of an entire industry |
| free enterprise | economic system in which people are free to start their own businesses and own their own property |
| consumer | person who buys or uses goods and services |
| human resource | people |
| capital resource | Money, tools, and machines that a company uses to produce goods & services |
| Ellis Island | immigration station on an island in New York harbor |
| Angel Island | immigration station in the San Fransisco Bay |
| prejudice | Unfair negative opinion about a group of people |
| diversity | Variety |
| sweatshop | factory or workshop where people work under poor conditions |
| labor union | people worked to get better working conditions and better pay |
| strike | workers refuse to work to get buisiness owners to meet their demands |
| George Washington Carver | found hundreds of uses for peanuts, soybeans, sweet potatoes, and pecans |
| natural resource | Materials found in nature that people can use, such as: trees & water |
