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| An African American inventor who played a key role in improving practical and electrical lighting |
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| Inventor of the electric lightbulb and other practical devices |
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| Inventor of the telephone |
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| Founder of the standard oil trust |
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| A business leader who became wealthy by dishonested methods |
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| Built U.S. steel industry |
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| Late 1800s era of fabulous wealth |
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| Government documents giving an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell an invetion for a specific number of years |
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| A business owned by invetors who buy part of it through shares of stocks. |
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A business that gains control of an industry by ellimninating other compertitors. |
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| a legal body created to hold stock in many companies often with in an industry |
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| the pattern of good and bad economic times |
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An investor who buys part of the company through shares and stock |
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| A period of low economic activity |
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| A New York Harbor immagration station for a european immagrants |
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| San Francisco Bay immagration station for asian immagrants |
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| A place where cultures blend |
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| Process of blending into society by adopting the dominant culture |
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| 1882 law which banded chinese immagration |
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| settlement founded by Jane Adams in chicago |
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