PEOPLE-INVENTORS
Jan Matzeliger.
African American Poet
Paul Laurence Dunbar
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors.
Trust
Large compartment that usually held cattle
Steerage
A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt.
Assembly line.
Lightweight personal camera
George Eastman.
Popular comic strip character
The Yellow Kid
Business owned by many investors.
Corporations
Rapid growth of city populations
Urbanization
A person who opposes all forms of government.
Anarchist
Christopher Sholes
Wrote a novel about an unhappily married woman
Kate Chopin
Someone who sets up new business to make a profit
Entrepreneur
Places divided into tiny apartments
Tenements
Factories where workers toil for long hours for low wages.
Sweatshops
Invented the Model T automobile and the assembly line
Henry Ford
Created the 1st modern, mass circulation newspaper
Joseph Pulitzer
The system in which privately owned businesses compete for freely.
Free enterprise.
A center offering help to the urban poor.
Settlement House
When a union stops working to get what they want.
Union
Invented the phonograph, and film camera, patented the light bulb and invented electricity for homes in New York.
Thomas Edison
A realist who wrote about life and people as they really are in his novel Huckleberry Finn and used Samuel Clemens as his pen name.
Mark Twain
Company that controls most or all business in a particular history.
Monopoly
A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention.
Patent.
The process of becoming part of another culture.
Assimilation