Big Business

Someone who creates their own business is called a(n)...

• Entrepreneur
• Billionaire
• Investor
• Stock Holder

Which industrialist is best known for his work in the steel industry?

• Charles Lindberg
• Andrew Carnegie
• John Rockefeller

Oil industry

• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• Abraham Lincoln

Steel industry

• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

a highly populated city area

• rural
• urban
• suburban
• agricultural

When handmade products were replaced by machines and mass production

• industrialization
• revitalization
• reconstruction
• urbanization

allows products to be mass produced generally allowing the price to decrease

• assembly line
• push factor
• pull factor
• sharecropping

A monopoly is the total or complete control of an industry. Unfortunately for consumers, this prevents ___________. 

• Unions
• Capitalism
• Competition
• regulation

Steel changed people's lives in making possible the...

• Building of Skyscrapers
• Establishment of Time Zones
• Development of Electricity
• Use of Kerosene

Which three big businesses transformed America in the years between 1870 and 1914?

• meatpacking, automobile,  and construction
• railroads, steel and oil
• textile, meatpacking and canals
• political machines, settlement houses and ghettos