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Chapter 6-2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Capitalism | Which private business run most industries, and competition determines how much goods cost and workers are paid. |
| Free Enterprise | Supply, demand, and profit margin determine what and how much business produce. |
| Communism | This theory proposes that individual ownership of property should not be allowed. |
| Social Darwinism | Application of ideas about evolution and the survival of the fittest to human societies. |
| Corporation | Another form of business. |
| Trust | The purpose was to eliminate competition in business. |
| Monopoly | If a trust gains exclusive control of an industry. |
| Vertical Integration | Combine into one organization all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing. |
| Horizontal Integration | Is an act of joining with ones competitors to create monopoly. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago to New York. |
| George Pullman | One of the most successful railroad giants. |
| Horatio Alder Jr. | Released a series of novels that reflected the increasing importance placed on individualism. |
| Andrew Carnegie | The steel king, basically every operation was owned by him. |
| John D. Rockefeller | Created an oil empire. Controlled 95% of all oil operations in the U.S. |