Chapter 18 Industry and Urban Growth

Patent

a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention

assembly line

a manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt

entrepreneur

someone who sets up businesses to make a profit

corporation

businesses owned by many investors

trust

a group of corporations run by a single board of directors

free enterprise

private businesses compete freely

monopoly

is a company that controls most or all business in a particular industry

collective barganing

unions negotiate with management for workers as a group

urbaanization

is the rapid growth of city population

tenement

buildings divided into many tiny apartments

settlement house

center offering help to urban poor

steerage

compartment held cattle

anachist

is a person who opposes all forms of government

assimilation

process of becoming part of another culture

complusory education

requirement that children to attend school up to a certain age

realists

show life as it is

yellow journalism

to describe the sensational reporting style