Big Business

Minorities were paid the same as whites on the railroads.

Social Darwinism

This term describes businessmen that used corrupt/immoral practices to make money

This process injects air into molten iron creating a stronger steel

After the Civil War, some business leaders eliminated competition by

This is when a corporation buys stocks of other other companies to control them

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 helped to deregulate railroad business practices.

Who signed the Pacific Railway Act?

Where was the transcontinental railroad completed?

This was not a factor that pushed the US from an agricultural society to an industrial nation

When a company purchases a competing company

Immigrants came to the US for all of the following reasons except

All of these are examples of philanthropic (giving back) activities to benefit society except

Social Darwinism affected the social class structure of the late 1800s by

Americans who agreed with the laissez-faire attitude in the late 1800s argued

Railroad created time zones

Some businessmen vertically integrated their corporations to

How did the capitalist economy help the US industrialize quicker?

These are all pros for new inventions execpt

Which is not a type of business

What was the result of the Morrill Tariff?

This occurred when investors controlled both companies and signed contracts with themselves