Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Consumer

• A group or workers

• Someone selling items

• someone who buys or uses goods and services

• grocery store

investor

• Someone who puts money into a business hoping to make a profit

• someone who buys goods

• homesteader

profit

• a financial share of ownership of a company

• a refusal to work until a group's demands are met

• location where people buy and sell stocks

• The money a business earns after all its expenses are paid

urbanization

• a building that has been divided into many small apartments

• a person who fought in a war

• the growth or spreading of cities

• yellow journalism

Someone who takes a risk to start a business

• dry farming

• entrepreneur

• free enterprise system

• homesteader

a factory system in which a product is put together as it moves past a line of workers, each of whom does one part of the whole job

• civil righs

• consumer

• alliance

• assembly line

a company that has control of an entire industry

• market

• melting pot

• monopoly

• Manifest Destiny

corporation

• a large business owned by investors

• stock market

• credit card

• assembly line

a financial share of ownership of a company

• stock

• strike

• siege

• strategy

a place where different peoples, cultures, and ideas are mixed together

• ice cream sundae

• popcorn bowl

• beef stew

• melting pot