| 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 | 
| Intercontinental Railroad | created time zones | 
| Henry Bessemer and William Kelly | 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 in a positive way | 
| social Darwinism | idea of survival of the fittest | 
| monopoly | complete control of a product or service | 
| cartel | loose association of buisnesses that make the same product | 
| Edwin Drake | first to strike oil through a well | 
| trust | companies managed as a single entity | 
| horizontal consolidation | bringing together companies that were in the same buisness | 
| vertical consolidation | gaining control of many different buisnesses that make up all phases of a product's development | 
| piecework | persons who work the fastest and produce the most get paid the most | 
| division of labor | most often seen in the factory where different components of a product is produced by different people | 
| Socialism | favors public control of property and income | 
| Scabs | replacement workers |