| A | B |
|---|
| patent | document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention |
| assembly line | manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt |
| entrepreneur | someone that sets up new buisnesses to make a profit |
| corporations | buisnesses owned by many investors |
| monopoly | company that controls most or all buisness in a particular industry |
| trust | group of corporations run by a single board of directors |
| free enterprise | system in which privately owned buisnesses compete freely |
| collective barganing | unions negotiate with management for workers as a group |
| urbanization | rapid growth of city population |
| tenements | buildings divided into many tiny apartments |
| settlement house | center that offers help to the urban poor |
| assimulation | process of becoming part of another country |
| anarchist | person who is opposed to all forms of government |
| compulsory education | requirement that children attend school up to a certain age |
| realists | writers who try to show life as it is |
| yellow journalism | the sensational reporting style of the New York World and other papers |
| Thomas Edison | great inventor that set up a research lad in Ments Park, NJ |
| Alexander Graham Bell | his invention of the telephone led to instant communication throughout the U.S. and the world |
| Jan Matzeliger | invented a machine that made cheaper and stronger shoes |
| Andrew Carnegie | a poor Scottish immigrant who dominated the settl industry by controlling every step in making steel |
| John D. Rockefeller | a brilliant entrepenuer who dominated the oil indusry by slashing prices |
| Samuel Gompers | formes the American Federation of Labor which became the leading union in the country |
| Mark Twain | most popular author of the time whose real name was Samuel Clemens |
| Joseph Pulitizer | created the 1st modern mass circulation newspaper |
