Industrialization & Urbanization Review

Powerful individuals that controlled the nation's rail traffic in the 1800's

Secret agreements to set prices along multiple rail lines

A standard width agreed upon for railroad track

Giving money back to customers who shipped large quantities

Combining separate companies

The process of creating large quantities of similar

products quickly.

Where a series of workers in a factory work in

succession to progressively assemble identical items

The name of the first automobile invented by Henry

Ford.

The name of the dunes located near Kitty Hawk,

North Carolina where the Wright brothers flew their

glider for the first time.

A company that revolutionized the way consumers

could buy goods by creating a mail-order catalog.

when one company is the single source for a produce and there are no close substitutes for the product available

the purchase of competing companies in the same industry

organized the Standard Oil Company by buying up smaller oil companies and turning them into one corporation

a place where people buy and sell stocks

when wealthy individuals or groups use their fortunes to benefit the community

law passed in 1890 to protect consumers from abuses by large companies

built a steel plant near Pittsburgh PA and dominated the steel industry

allows individual shareholders of many separate corporations to transfer their shares to a single board that gave them larger ownership over all the companies

acquired companies that provided the equipment and services he needed at all levels of production