Inventors, Inventions, and Big Business

A government document giving the inventor of something ownership of what he/she invented

• socialism

• patent

• transcontinental railroad

• telegraph

A business owned by investors who buy part of the company through stocks

• business cycle

• socialism

• corporation

• trust

A company that eliminates its competition and controls an industry

• corporation

• trust

• business cycle

• monopoly

A legal group that owns stock in many companies

• trust

• corporation

• philanthropist

• socialism

A person who gives large amounts of money to charities

• trust

• sweatshop

• corporation

• philanthropist

A place where workers work for long hours in poor conditions for little money

• corporation

• trust

• sweatshop

• business cycle

All members of society are equal owners of all businesses and share in the work and profits

• corporation

• trust

• socialism

• sweatshop

The pattern of good times and bad times in the economy

• philanthropist

• business cycle

• corporation

• socialism

A device that changes mechanical power into electrical power

• telegraph

• transcontinental railroad

• electric generator

• monopoly

A system for sending messages over wires using signals such as Morse Code

• telegraph

• electric generator

• telephone

• trust