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 ____________________________________________________________.