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| the total value of goods produced and services provided by a country during one year, equal to the gross domestic product plus the net income from foreign investments. |
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| A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course |
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| a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. |
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| (1847–1922), US scientist, born in Scotland. He invented a method for transmitting speech electrically and gave the first public demonstration of the telephone in 1876 |
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| (1847–1931), US inventor; full name Thomas Alva Edison. He took out the first of more than 1,000 patents at the age of 21. His inventions include automatic telegraph systems, the carbon microphone for telephones, the phonograph, and the carbon filament lamp. |
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| Protective tariff adopted in 1886 by president James |
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| an area or stretch of land having a particular characteristic, purpose, or use, or subject to particular restriction |
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| a grant of public land, esp. to an institution, organization, or to particular groups of people. |
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| combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole |
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| series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States |
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| was a Union army officer on the frontier and during the Civil War, a U.S. Congressman, |
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| US businessman and philanthropist. |
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| US financier; full name Jason Gould. With James Fisk and Daniel Drew 1797–1879, he gained control of the Erie Railroad in 1868 through stock manipulation |
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| an American railroad construction company setup by the Union Pacific Railroad |
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| was a Canadian-American railroad executive |
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| a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity |
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| the goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a business or warehouse and available for sale or distribution |
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| the wealth and resources of a country or region, esp. in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services. |
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| a small area of still water, typically one formed naturally. |
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| the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies. |
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| is a strategy where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike |
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| the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service |
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| firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something |
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| a company created to buy and possess the shares of other companies, which it then controls. |
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| US industrialist and philanthropist; born in Scotland. After building up a fortune in the steel industry |
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| was an American industrialist and philanthropist |
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| the action or process of deflating or being deflated |
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| another term for labor union |
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| a union whose members all work in various capacities in a single industry. |
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| is a list or register of entities who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition |
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| the exclusion of employees by their employer from their place of work until certain terms are agreed to. |
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| the use of an arbitrator to settle a dispute. |
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| Law a judicial order that restrains a person from beginning or continuing an action threatening or invading the legal right of another, or that compels a person to carry out a certain act |
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| a place of work where membership in a union is a condition for being hired and for continued employmen |
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| the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism. |
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| (officially "Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor") |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| a federation of North American labor unions, merged in 1955 with the Congress of Industrial Organizations to form the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations |
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| US labor leader; born in England. He helped to found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1881 |
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