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The U.S. transformation from agriculture to industrial and the rise of big business

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Andrew CarnegieCaptain of the steel industry
Mechanizationto introduce machinary into an industry/enterprise, in order to replace manuel labor
Examples of big businesssteel, oil, and automobiles
Immigrationa source of labor
John D. RockefellerCaptain of the oil industry
Example of mail orderSears catalog
Where the American farmers movedcities
Transportation advancescreated by national markets
Henry FordCaptain of the automobile industry
Reapera new farming tool that increased production
Advertisingto try to sell a product, or to make something publically known
The telephone and the light bulbnew inventions
Bell, Bessemer, and Edisonthree inventors that changed the world
Assembly linean arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation on an incomplete unit as it passes by in a series of stages organized in a direct line.
Agricultural systemthe U.S. this system prior to the Civil War
Industrial systemreplaced agricultural system
The opposite of MonopolyFree Enterprise
Who wrote "The Gospel of Wealth"Andrew Carnegie
The Sherman Antitrust Actthe first U.S. federal government action to limit monopolies
What increased the number of industries?more financial resources available


Social Studies
Virginia Commonwealth University

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