Chapter 18 vocab Industry and Urban Growth

patent

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

assembly line

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

refine

purify

entrepreneuer

someone who sets up new businesses to make profit

corporation

businesses owned by many investors

monopoly

company that controls most or all business in a particular industry

trust

group of corporations run by a single board of directors

free enterprise

privet businesses completely free

collective

union negotiate with management for workers as a group

urbanization

rapid growth of city population

tenement

buildings divided into many tiny apartments

settlement house

center offering help to the Urban poor

steerage

large compartments that usually held cattle

anachist

person who opposes all forms of gov

assimilation

process of becoming part of another culture

compulsory education

requirement that children attend school up to a certain age

realist

writers who try to show life as it is

yellow journalism

to describe the sensational reporting style