Industrialization

Individuals are free to produce and sell whatever products they wish

• Free Enterprise System
• Social Darwinism
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Monopoly

Prohibited unfair practices by railroads such as charging higher rates for shorter routes

• Interstate commerce act
• Free Enterprise System
• Social Darwinism
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market

• Laissez-Faire
• Interstate commerce act
• Free Enterprise System
• Social Darwinism

process which made steel more affordable and profitable

• Bessemer Process
• Laissez-Faire
• Interstate commerce act
• Free Enterprise System

made his fortune refining oil; founded Standard oil

• John D Rockefeller
• Bessemer Process
• Laissez-Faire
• Interstate commerce act

a company chartered by a state and recognized in law as a separate person

• Corporation
• John D Rockefeller
• Bessemer Process
• Laissez-Faire

inventor best known for his invention of the electric light bulb

• Thomas Edison
• Corporation
• John D Rockefeller
• Bessemer Process

Linked goods and services through technology and transportation making commerce more affordable

• National Market
• Thomas Edison
• Corporation
• John D Rockefeller

Completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah making it possible to travel by land to California

• Transcontinental Railroad
• National Market
• Thomas Edison
• Corporation

organized workers to act as a group not as an individual to leverage for better working conditions

• Union
• Transcontinental Railroad
• National Market
• Thomas Edison