Ch. 20 Vocabulary

What is a merger?

• when companies split apart

• when companies combine

• when owners reduce employees

• when employees strike

What is a legal order saying you can't do something?

• monopoly

• shareholder

• injunction

• strikebreaker

What do you call someone who invests in a company?

• shareholder

• strikebreaker

• corporation

• trust

What is standard gauge?

• used to measure height

• agreed upon common distance measurement

• different distances depending on the state

• used to measure weight

Who is the most famous railroad baron?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Charles Bessemer

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

The railroad barons form these to set rates.

• trusts

• pools

• strikes

• corporations

What car put Ford on the map?

• Model K

• Model S

• Model T

• Model P

These are sometimes called "scabs."

• shareholders

• strikebreakers

• employers

• pools

What is capital?

• funding for business

• number of workers

• presidents

• factors of production

Factors of ________ are the needed elements to make things.

• creation

• building

• production

• corporations