Chapter 20 - Age of Big Business vocab quiz

Which word means a person who starts a business?

• entrepreneur

• capitalist

• shareholder

• progressive

Which is the term for shares of ownership a company sells in its business?

• dividends

• stock

• patent

• trust

Which is a person who invests in a company by buying stock?

• entrepreneur

• capitalist

• shareholder

• muckracker

A stockholder's share of a company's profits is called

• payment

• corporation

• sharecropping

• dividend

Which of the following is NOT a factor of production

• land

• trust

• labor

• capital

Which is a legally defined organization of people and resources with the purpose of doing business?

• fugitive

• entrepreneur

• corporation

• barrio

Which is the term that refers to a group of companies run by a single board?

• labor union

• injunction

• shareholders

• trust

When one has total control of a type of industry, one has a

• monopoly

• mass production

• collective bargaining

• corporation

To combine two or more businesses into one

• trust

• merger

• labor union

• protectorate