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US History #6
Chapter 5 Section 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Corporation - | organization owned by many people |
| Stock - | shares of ownership |
| Economies of scale - | the reduction in the cost of a good brought about especially by increased production at a given facility |
| Pool - | agreements to keep prices at a certain level |
| Vertical integration - | owns all of the different businesses on which it depends for its corporation |
| Horizontal integration - | combining firms of the same business into one large corporation |
| Monopoly - | a single company achieves control of an entire market |
| Trust - | a new way of merging businesses that did not violate such laws |
| Holding company - | owns a stock of companies that produces goods |
| Andrew Carnegie - | illustrates many of the factors that led to the rise of big business in the United States |
| John D. Rockfeller - | most famous industrialist who achieved almost complete horizontal integration of his industry |