A | B |
emigrate | to leave (EXIT) one's homeland to go to another country |
immigrate | To come into (IN) a new country |
rural | a term referring to the countryside |
tenement | a large apartment building that is overcrowded and rundown |
monopoly | complete control over an industry by a person or company |
patent | a document that legally protects an inventor from his/her idea copied by another inventor |
assembly line | system of production in which workers can mass produce products and they can be sold cheaper |
subway | a train that runs on underground tracks |
laissez faire | philosophy that government should leave businesses alone |
refinery | a place where oil from the ground is cleaned |
Knights of Labor & AFL | Labor unions which fought for the rights of factory workers |
Specialization of labor | learning a specific task through repition |
Andrew Carnegie | Known for dominating the steel industry |
Henry Ford | Famous for the Model T |
Thomas Edison | invented the lightbulb and over 1000 other inventions |
Joseph Glidden | Invented barbed wire |
John D. Rockefeller | Famous for dominating the oil industry |
Stock | certificate showing ownership in a part of a company |