Rise of Big Businesses
Owned the "Standard Oil" monopoly
John D Rockefeller
The name for negatively referring to one of the huge business leaders of the time
Robber Baron
This economic strategy is the act of merging companies together in order to gain more wealth and power
Horizontal Integration
The first 10 amendments in the Constitution are known as what?
Bill of Rights
This section of the colonies were known for fishing, ship building, and commerce
New England
Invented the light bulb
Thomas Edison
What does the acronym R.O.S.E. stand for
Railroads
Oil
Steel
Electricity
argued that it is God's will for some men to gain great wealth so they could serve the public
Gospel of Wealth
Loosely enforced laws. The way the British governed the colonies
Salutary Neglect
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant that ended the Civil War?
Appomattox Courthouse
Railroad tycoon
Cornelius Vanderbilt
The name for positively referring to the big business leaders.
Economic theory where the government has its hands out of the economy and lets whatever happens, happen
Laissez-Faire
A tax placed on the colonist by the British that taxed anything printed
Stamp Act
This addition to the United States doubled the size of the country
Louisiana Purchase
The banker that single handedly brought America out of the Panic of 1907.
JP Morgan
Corporate mergers led to giant companies called _________ that controlled the majority of an industry…
Monopoly
This economic strategy is the act of owning every aspect of the company from the top down.
Vertical Integration
Articles of Confederation
What made South Carolina and other states secede from the Union?
Election of 1860
Andrew Carnegie used this process to convert iron into steel.
Bessemer Process
This railroad was completed in 1869. The first railroad that ran across the continent of North America
Transcontinental
This taught that natural competition weeds out the weak and allows the strong to survive
Social Darwinism
Who was the author of "Common Sense"
Thomas Paine
This act said the the colonies could only trade with other British colonies or Britain itself