US History #6 Word Scramble
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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 |
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