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Vocabulary
Causes of the Rise in Big Business
Effects of Big Business
Before the Industrial Revolution
After the Industrial Revolution
100
A business owned by investors.
What is a corporation
100
There was an increase in availability of these
What are natural resources?
100
By 1900 more Americans worked in these than on farms.
What is industries?
100
These are the type of businesses that were popular
What is local and family-owned?
100
The US economy is based on this system
What is free enterprise?
200
Shares of a business bought by investors.
What is stock
200
There was more money to make these.
What are investments?
200
The US became the world's largest producer of these.
What is manufactured goods?
200
People primarily worked on these rather than in industry.
What are farms?
200
Under free enterprise, companies may do this freely.
What is compete?
300
Having complete control over a business and doing away with the competition
What is a monopoly?
300
The Transcontinental railroad
What is transported goods more quickly and cheaper.
300
Millions of these were created
What are jobs
300
Businesses became larger and were no longer family owned
What are corporations?
400
The freedom to start your own business, make what one chooses, and charge whatever you want to charge.
What is Free-Enterprise?
400
An increase in technology and creation of these contributed to the rise in big business.
What are new inventions
400
Many people moved from rural areas to this area.
What are cities?
500
A person who invests in a company by buying stock
What is a share-holder?
500
Because of the growth in business, the US now had more money to invest.
What is a growing economy?
500
Many of these individuals came to America
What are immigrants?