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Big Business and Growing Industry

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Consumers   All people who buy and consume products for themselves or a family member  
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Consumer Goods   Products made for people to buy, such as clothes, cooking, stoves, furniture, etc.  
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Reaper   A machine for harvesting wheat, invented by Cyrus McCormick in V.A., in the 1830's  
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Mechanization   The shift to a greater use of machines, instead of just human labor, to produce products or grow crops  
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Textile Industry   Cloth making industry. First industry to convert to factory and production methods. In America, the T.I., first developed in the New England states  
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Henry Ford   Famous engineer and businessman who used assembly line techniques to create the first automobile. Model T Ford was the best selling car in the early 1900's  
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John D. Rockefeller   Ohio businessman who started the Standard Oil Company  
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