The practice of combining separate companies in the same industry
special discounts from railroad companies
Individuals who controlled the nation’s railroads
Uniformed all tracks which allowed for faster reduced cost
Secret agreements between railroad barons.
Divided the nation into 4 parts, this created a unified scheduling system.
Nickname given to Thomas Edison
Leader of the automobile industry. He introduced the assembly line.
Invented the telephone
Written guarantee by the government which protected inventors & their inventions
Company that offers shares of stock for sale to the public
Investment that allowed people part ownership of a corporation
Person who buys/owns stock
Cash payment to shareholders from corporations
A group of companies managed by the same board of directors
Complete control within your industry.
The combining of companies
Leader of the Oil industry
Leader of the steel industry
Person who gives away money to better the community
Attempt by government to break up trusts & monopolies
Purchased of companies at all levels of production (Carnegie)
Purchase of competing companies within an industry. (Rockefeller)
Unsafe factories where workers worked long hours for low pay
Workers brought into factories to replace striking workers
1. Explain/compare the ways that John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie came to control their respected industries using either vertical or horizontal integration 2. Explain in detail the three factors of production as they relate to the Industrial Revolution at the end of the 19 th century: 3. Why did workers form labor unions and what affect did violent strikes have on them?