A | B |
monopoly | a company or group having exclusive contrl orver a commercial activity |
stock | the certificate of ownership of a company |
scab | someone who takes the job of someone on strike |
Liassez-faire | minimum interference of the government in business |
factory | a building where products are made |
strike | to stop working to have their demands met |
transcontintental railroad | it connected the east and west coast |
Homestead Act of 1862/63 | it gave land to people who moved west |
Carnegie | owned Carnegie Steel Corporation |
Vanderbuilt | Cornelius Vanderbilt was an industrialist in railroads and shipping. He had accumulated the largest fortune in the U.S. at the time of his death, in 1877. |