Name the person
Who was the president after Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
What was businesses that sold portions of ownership called stock shares?
corporations
What company influenced a building by selling stock?
Who was Standord Oil Company
Rockefeller didn’t want to buy his suppliers companies.
False
Who was an American stage actor that assassinated United states president Abraham Lincoln at Fords theater in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865?
John Wilkes Booth
What was the business practiced of owning all of the businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process?
vertical integration
Name one person who did not believe in social Darwinism (survival of the fittest) in business/life.
Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Stanford did not believe in social Darwinism. They believed it was their duty to help aid the poor and gave away large sums of money to help the community.
All Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Stanford wanted to help the less fortunate.
True
Who was the American railroad builder and politician who established the California Central Pacific railroad and founded Stanford University?
Leland Standford
What is owning all business in a certain field?
horizontal integration
What was the complete control over the entire supply of goods or a service in a particular market?
Monopolies
Concerns about trusts lead to the Sherman Antitrust Act.
True
Who was the American industrialist and philanthropist, who made a fortune the oil business and used vertical and horizontal integration to establish a monopoly on the steel business?
John D. Rockefeller
What was a number of companies legal grouped under a single board of directors?
trust
What is the ownership of business involved in each step of a manufacturing process?
what is vertical integration
People in the government begin to question the methods of Big Business.
True
Who was the American industrialist and humanitarian who focused his attention on steelmaking and made a fortune through his vertical integration method?
Andrew Carnegie
What is a view of society based on Charles Darwin's scientific theory of natural selection?
social Darwinism
By 1900, how many shares per year were being traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
10 million
John D. Rockefeller was an immigrant.
False