APUSH Period 6, Part A

A period in US history c1869-1889 that seemed alright on the outside but was politically corrupt internally.

• Gilded Age

• Antebellum

• Post-War Period

• Atomic Age

A sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business

• Subsidy

• Tariff

• Tax

• Price Ceiling

First attempt by the US government to regulate an industry.

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Sherman Anti-trust Act

• Clayton Anti-trust Act

• Homestead Act

Completed in 1869, this linked the West and East coast of the United States for the first time.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• National Road

• Oregon Trail

• Erie Canal

The elimination of competition in a market by a firm or business.

• Monopoly

• Free Trade

• Free Market

• Controlled Economy

A monopoly created when a business owns or controls all the products and means of production for a single product from start to finish.

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

• Supply Chain Dominance

• Cartel

A monopoly created when a business buys or closes all businesses that produce the same product they produce.

• Horizontal Integration

• Vertical Integration

• Communism

• Fair Competition

Creator of Standard Oil and one of the richest men in American history.

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Owner of US Steel and creator of the Gospel of Wealth. He ended up giving most of his fortune away.

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

• John D Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

A business practice wherein a member of one company's board of directors also serves on another company's board or within another company's management.

• interlocking directorates

• free enterprise system

• board overlap

• trust boards