Terms
Someone who owns a part of a company
shareholder
a court order; used to stop striking
injunction
Created the assembly line
Henry Ford
to combined many of similar competing companies
horizontal
a payout to a shareholder if the company is doing well
dividend
Hired to replace striking workers
strikebreakers
Owner of the Central line Railroad
Vanderbilt
acquiring companies that supply various parts of the materials needed
vertical
To combined smaller companies into a larger company
Consolidation
When an injunction was order to stop striking and as a result federal troops were called in
Pullman Strike
Owner of Standard Oil Company
Rockfeller
Gatorade buying Powerade would be an example of Horizontal or vertical integration?
Horizontal
When one company controls the market on a good
monopoly
An advancement in railroads that allows for trains to switch tracks easier
Standard gage
Steel Barron from Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Ford buying Dodge and Toyota would be an example
horizontal
This was meant to keep one company from cornering a market and taking complete control
Sherman Antitrust Act
This labor event resulted in a bomb being blown and the labor movement being viewed as a terrorist operation
Haymarket Square Riots
Leader of American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Dell computers buying a hard drive company, a screen company and processor company
Vertical