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Chatper 14 Tulini
The Expansion of American industry, 1865-1900 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cartel | Looss association of Bussinesses supplying the same product often formed secretly |
| Horizontal Consolidation | Process of creating one giant business by bringing together smaller firms in the same Field. |
| Economy of scale | Producing or buying an item on a very large scale so the price per item goes down |
| Trust | Combinations of companies that turn over their assests to a board of control prices and competitions in a particular industry |
| Monopoly | Control of comodity or service extending to the elimination of competition and the fixing of prices |
| Collective Bargaining | Negotiation between employers and worker usually through a labor union |
| Socailism | The economuc and political philosophy that advocates collective ownership of factories and propertys |
| Anarchist | |
| Haymarket Square | |
| Pinkerton | Private police force of the late 1800s and early 1900s; hired by companies to break strikes |
| Transcontinental RailRoad | Railroad spanning North American continent; completed in 1869 |
| Social Darwinisim | Application of Charles Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory to human society; used by the great industrialists of the late 1800s to discourage government interference in business |
| Pullman Strike | |
| Homestead Strike | |
| Vertical Consolidation | Control of all phases of a product's development, from raw materials to delivery of the finished products |
| Ellis Island | |
| Andrew Carnegie | Industrialist who made a fortune in stell in the late 1800s through vertical consolidation; as a philanthropist, he gave away over $350 million |
| John Roebling | |
| Thomas Edison | Inventor; developed the light bulb, the phonograph, and hundreds of other inventions in the late 1800s and early 1900s |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Inventor; developed the telephone in 1876; one of the founders of american telephone & telegraph (AT&T) in 1884 |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | |
| John D. Rockefeller |