The Rise of Big Business
Corporations
• Due to the increase in ability to transport goods and expanding markets, ____________ ______________________________________________________________________.
• Corporation- ____________________________________________________________.
Gaining a Competitive Edge
• In order to gain more profit, some corporations would attempt to gain a _____________ on a certain good
• Monopoly-______________________________________________________________.
Vertical vs. Horizontal Integration
Horizontal Integration- __________________________________________________________.Vertical Integration- ____________________________________________________________.
Trusts
• Trust- __________________________________________________________________.• Formed so that just a ____________________ could control all of the _______________
_____________________________________.
Robber Barons
• These men were known as _________________________________________________.• People disagreed with some of their _______________________________________.• Felt the men ___________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________.
Social Darwinism
• Some believed that wealth _________________________________________________.• People used Social Darwinism to justify how only the ____________________________.
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
• Gospel of Wealth- ________________________________________________________.• providing them opportunities to better themselves
John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust
• ______________________________ was a trust that gave Rockefeller control of nearly ____________________________________________________________.