A | B |
corporation | providing limited liability for investors to pool money to start a company |
monopoly | when an individual or small group controls the market of a product or service |
Bessemer Process | the newer and cheaper way to make steel |
Thomas Edison | inventor who developed the light bulb and developed electricity |
Alexander Bell | inventor of the telephone |
Wright Brothers | invented the airplane |
Henry Ford | developed assembly line manufacturing |
assembly line | helped increase production by moving product along conveyor belts |
Model T Automobile | first major product developed by Ford for assembly line |
Robber Barons | negative term used for the industrial captains of industry |
Andrew Carnegie | industrial leader who dominated the steel industry |
railroads | the industry which consumed the most steel before 1900 |
JP Morgan | industrial leader who dominated finance and banking |
John Rockeffeller | industrial leader who dominated the oil industry |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | industrial leader who dominated railroads |
free enterprise | laissez-faire capitalism, believing the government should encourage business |
immigrants | supplied most of the cheap labor needed during industrialism |
land grants | these were given to railroad builders to encourage development |
trust | developed so industrialists could control large corporations |
horizontal integration | gaining a monopoly by purchasing a level of the marketplace |
vertical integration | increasing profit by owning all levels of production and distribution |
supply and demand | this rule of commerce controls price and production of goods |