chapter 9

a business that is owned by many people

• capitalism

• corporation

• trust

Who invented the typewriter that first used the Qwerty keyboard.

• Christopher Sholes

• Andrew Carnegie

• Thomas Edison

The person who was America's most important manufacturer of steel.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Andrew Carnegie

an organized group of workers that unite to go on strike to force their employers to make changes.

• labor union

• realism

• capitalism

• trust

the person who led America's oil industry

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Christopher Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

a combination of several smaller companies into one gigantic corporation

• trust

• capitalism

• corporation

the person who was first to patent the telephone

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Andrew Carnegie

a person who gives large sums of money to help public causes

• evolutionist

• philanthropist

• corporation

an economic system in which the people own the country's goods and buisnesses

• captialism

• corporation

• evolutionist

the person who experimented with the light bulb and invented the phonograph

• Andrew Carnegie

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell