Chapter 12 Section 3 & 4 Flashcards
Big Business would not have been possible without the ___________
Corporations
People who own corporations are called
stockholders
Investing in new technologies, hiring large workforces, and puchasing many machines enabled corporations to achieve
Economies of Scale
Big Businesses had high fixed cost and low operating costs, which gave them several ___________
advantages
Many companies did not like the intesnse _________ that had been forced upon them
Competition
to stop prices from falling…many companies organized ___________ to keep prices at a certain level
pools
The life of ___________ illustrated many factors that led to the rise of big business in the U.S.
Andrew Carnegie
Born poor Carnegie eventually opened a ______ business in Pittsburgh.
steel
Successful business leaders pushed for………….
Horizontal Integration
Who achieved most complete horizontal integration?
John D. Rockefeller
IN 1882, Standard Oil formed the first ________, a new way of merging businesses that did not violate laws against monopolies.
trust
Many companies immeditely used the law to create a new organization, a ________ company
holding
One of the most successful investment banker of the era was…….
JP Morgan
What was the first billion dollar company in America?
US Steel
what was the first advertising company?
NWAYER and SON
What added to tensions between workers and employers?
Deflation
What were the two basic types of industrial workers in the 1800s?
craft workers and common laborers
What type of workers formed trade unions?
Craft Workers
Employers viewed unions as __________
Conspiracies
Business leaders particularly opposed
industrial unions
What is a contract called that says you will never join a union while working for this company?
Yellow-Dog Contract
Workers who tried to strike were fired and placed on a
Blacklist