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Big Business vocabulary
Students will learn about U.S. history
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agriculture | farming |
industry | factory buisnesses |
monopoly | owning or controlling an industry |
horizontal combination | buying up your competition's business |
vertical combination | buying all the steps needed to do business |
inventions | new ideas or machines |
national markets | people in the U.S. wanting goods |
transportation advances | improvements such as trains and cars |
advertising | posters and announcements to get people to buy things |
production | making and completing goods |
raw materials | iron |
energy | coal, oil |
work force | people wanting jobs |
financial | having to do with money |
mechanization | using more machines |
labor | the work of people |
industialization | when areas become full of factories |
consumer goods | items people want |
increased | more, higher |
decreased | less, fewer |
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