Rise of Big Business

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What is a corporation?

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Large businesses owned by investors

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Vertical Integration is when a company _____________.

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Controls all the aspects of the manufacturing process

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Designed a new way to make steel at lower costs and more efficient

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Henry Bessemer

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Eliminated the competition and built the Standard Oil Company.

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JD Rockefeller

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This man made his fortune by owning ships and then building a monopoly in railroads?

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Vanderbilt

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Which description best matches the term "robber baron"?

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a leader of industry who used unfair and illegal business tactics to force other companies out of business.

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Term where several companies engaged in the same type of business and joined together

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Horizontal integration

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Who was a leader in the steel industry?

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Andrew Carnegie

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Who was a leader in the oil industry?

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John Rockefeller

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Who was a leader in the railroad industry?

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Cornelius Vanderbilt