Am Hist 5 Ch 19 Vocabulary

A shift of population from primarily rural/agrarian to primarily urban/industrial.

Period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing in the late 1800's.

A way to manufacture steel more quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through molten iron to eliminate impurities.

Exclusive rights to make or sell inventions.

Businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares.

Ownership of businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process.

Owning all businesses in a certain field.

Legal arrangement grouping together a number of companies under a single board of directors.

View of society based on Darwin's theory of natural selection.

Total ownership of a product or service.

Law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade.

Workers acting together to negotiate with employers.

A labor conflict in Chicago - a bomb wounded many police officers and killed eight.  Police fired into the crowd, killing several and wounding 100.

Strike at Carnegie's Homestead Factory, protested a plan to buy machinery and lose jobs.

Stopped traffic on many railroad lines - Federal courts ordered workers to return to their jobs.