Chapter 19 Vocabulary quiz

A ________ is a person who invests in a corporation by buying stock and is a partial owner.

• shareholder

• stock

• rebate

• injunction

(a)   is shares of ownership of a company sells in its business which often carry voting power.

A __________is a practice of combining separate companies into one.

• pool

• dividend

• stock

• consolidation

A (a)   is a group sharing in some activity, for example among railroad barons who made secret agreements and set rates among themselves.

A _________is a stockholder's share of company's profit, usually as a cash payments.

• stock

• dividend

• trust

• pool

A _________ is a business in which investors own shares.

• injunction

• Corporation

• philanthropy

• trust

_______ means charitable acts or gifts of money to benefit the company.

• philanthropy

• trade union

• merger

• horizontal integration

During the 1880's the _____________ of railroad tracks were all uniform.

• trade union

• strikebreaker

• standard gauge

• horizontal integration

(a)   is a combination of firms or corporations formed by legal agreement, especially to reduce competition,

__________ is a shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions.

• pool

• rebate

• monoploy

• sweatshop