Industrialization

Combining competing companies  into one company 

• Consolidation 
• Stocks 
• Sweatshops 
• Trusts 

Money available for investment

• Trusts 
• Capital 

Process where each person had an assigned task to create a product 

• Sweatshops
• Shareholders
• Assembly Line 
• Patents 

People who invest in a corporation 

• shareholders
• Railroad Barons
• Rebates
• Stocks 

Accepted width of a railroad track 

• Consolidation
• Mass Production 
• Meter Gauge 
• Standard Gauge 

The use of money to benefit the community or charity 

• Rebates 
• Philanthropy 
• Mass Production 
• Patents 

Secret Discounts 

• Rebates 
• Capital 
• Consolidation 
• Trusts 

Powerful individual who controlled the nation’s rail traffic

• Steel Barons 
• Shareholders 
• Bankers 
• Railroad Barons 

Factories with very bad working  conditions 

• Assembly Line 
• Mass Production 
• Sweatshops 
• Walmart 

Traveled from the Atlantic to the  Pacific

• Transcontinental Railroad 
• Transcontinental Telegram 
• Standard Gauge 
• Shareholders