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25 Cards in this Set
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The amount of ________ in the United States more than doubled between 1860 and 1900. |
Manufacturing |
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Manufacturers used the railroads to send their goods to _______. |
Market |
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America's rich supply of ____ _____ provided industry with the raw materials needed to turn out wide variety of finished goods. |
Natural resources |
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Wealthy Europeans and Americans eagerly invested _____ in new businesses in the United States. |
Money |
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High ___ protected American industry from foreign competition. |
Tariff |
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Millions of ___ came to the United States and provided factory owners with eager supply of workers. |
Immigrants |
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The steadily increasing _____ of the United States have manufacturers an expanding market for their goods. |
Population |
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Products were made by power-driven ____ operated by factory workers. |
Machines |
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The railroad, a better sailing ship, the __, the telegraph, and the telephone reduced the time and cost of transpiration and communication. |
Steamship |
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A new form of business called the ___ developed in the years after the civil war. |
Corporation |
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Corporations wee able to raise large sums of money because many people bought __ __ __ in the business. |
Share of stock |
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The people who purchased shares of stock were called ____. |
Stock holder |
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A corporation had enough money to build huge factories, but expensive machinery, and sell products across the country and around the ___. |
World |
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Some big businesses become ___ after they ended competition by driving out smaller businesses. |
Monopoly |
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The government finally acted to control the power and abuses of big business by passing such laws as the _____________ and Clayton antitrust act. |
Sherman anti Trust act |
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American industries developed the system of ________ to turn out large quantities of goods at low prices. |
Mass production |
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____, or interchangeable, parts wee assembled into finished articles. |
Standardized |
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Each worker along an __________ attached another part to and article moving past them on a conveyor belt. |
Assembly line |
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The general store was replace by specialty shops, chain stores, department stores, and _____ houses. |
Mail order |
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Andrew Carnegie, John d Rockefeller, and other _____ took control of steel, oil, and other industries during the late 1800's. |
Captains of industry |
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Inventors led by ___ created a wide variety of new products for consumers. |
Thomas s Edison |
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By the late 1800's the United States ____ more manufactured goods than it imported. |
Exported |
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The states that did the most manufacturing were in the ____ and Midwest. |
Northeast |
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By 1900 the value of manufactured goods in the us was twice that of the nation's ____. |
Farm products |
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The United States became the leading ___ in the world. |
Industrial nation |
