Industrial Revolution Vocab - SS 8 - 2024-25

What is an assembly line?

• A method of organizing workers into teams

• A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a conveyor belt

• A type of business owned by many investors

• A document that gives someone the sole right to make and sell an invention

What is a patent?

• A type of business owned by many investors

• A negotiation between company management and a union

• A document that gives someone the sole right to make and sell an invention

• A style of reporting and journalism

Who is an entrepreneur?

• Someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit

• A person who controls all or nearly all business in an industry

• A group of corporations run by a single board of directors

• A person who negotiates wages and benefits for workers

What is a corporation?

• A business owned by a single individual

• A business owned by many investors

• A group of workers negotiating with management

• A building divided into many tiny apartments

What is a monopoly?

• A company that controls all or nearly all business in an industry

• A negotiation between a company and its workers

• A center offering help to the urban poor

• A movement of people from rural areas to cities

What is a trust?

• A document that gives someone the sole right to make and sell an invention

• A group of corporations run by a single board of directors

• A style of reporting and journalism

• A business owned by many investors

What is free enterprise?

• An economic system in which each privately owned business decides what to produce, how much to produce, and what to charge

• A negotiation between company management and a union

• A movement of people from rural areas to cities

• A building divided into many tiny apartments

What is collective bargaining?

• A method of organizing workers into teams

• Negotiation between company management and a union representing a group of workers about wages, benefits, and working conditions

• A style of reporting and journalism

• A document that gives someone the sole right to make and sell an invention

What is urbanization?

• A movement of large numbers of people from rural areas to cities; rapid growth of city populations

• A type of business owned by many investors

• A group of corporations run by a single board of directors

• A center offering help to the urban poor

What is a tenement?

• A building divided into many tiny apartments

• A negotiation between company management and a union

• A document that gives someone the sole right to make and sell an invention

• A style of reporting and journalism