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Industrialization
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| philanthropy | giving money to charity |
| monopoly | sole economic control of a product/industry (one person owns all) |
| capitalism | economic system in which private businesses own and operate most industries; also known as free enterprise |
| captains of industry | industrialists who led their field, created many jobs, and gave their money away |
| Sherman Anti-Trust and Clayton Anti-Trust Act | laws that broke up monopolies |
| robber barons | industrialists who eliminated competition and treated workers unfairly |
| social Darwinism | idea of survival of the fittest in society-- the fittest/strongest companies rise to the top and make money |
| John Rockefeller | American monopolist in the oil industry who used vertical and horizontal integration to make his monopoly |
| Andrew Carnegie | American monopolist of the steel industry that used the Bessemer process and was also a philanthropist |
| Industrial Revolution | a period of rapid growth in manufacturing and industry in the late 1800s |
| Bessemer process | process developed in the late 1850s that led to faster and cheaper steel production |
| assembly line | invention by Henry Ford that led to the faster and easier production of Ford Model T cars |
| mass production | producing massive amounts of the same product for faster, easier, and cheaper |