Matching Pairs Historical Entrepreneurs Online version Match the following historical entrepreneurs with their descriptions and contributions to business and our society. You may use a search engine to research each entrepreneur. There is a 15 minute timer so be sure to stay on task! by Latoya Thomas Latoya Thomas 1 Widely regarded as one of the greatest innovators and industrialists of all time. His innovations in assembly-line techniques and the introduction of standardized interchangeable parts produced the first mass-production vehicle manufacturing. 2 Was an American businesswoman. She was the co-founder of a cosmetics company. She was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century. 3 Innovative visionary who built a two-man operation into a multi-billion-dollar colossus and made himself one of the richest men in the world. 4 This entrepreneur borrowed $800 and turned it into gold! The founder of the Motown Records, one of the most successful black owned companies in the United States. 5 She began making her own hair treatments in 1904. The treatments worked well, she began offering them to other African-American women. She sold her products door-to door and bought ad space in newspapers. She then opened Lelia College, where she and her daughter trained other women to use and sell the product line. 6 American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, and is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry. 7 A Virginia farmer invented a mechanical reaper, then harvested profits in the Midwest's exploding grain belt, innovating credit, service, and sales practices that became essential parts of American big business.
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