Big Business: Objectives
After you have completed this section, you will be able to:
- Describe the lives of key industrialists and entrepreneurs of the era.
- Examine the impact of competition in big business and the human response to competition.
- Understand the purpose of key Congressional legislation in business regulation.
- Identify workforce and industry trends in U.S. population data.
- Identify key dates and the contributions of key people during the period of capitalistic growth.
- Define the following terms:
- Captains of Industry
- Social Darwinism
- Monopoly
- Consumer
- Horizontal integration
- Vertical integration
- Economies of scale
- Cartel
- Trust
- Stock
- Robber baron
- Tariff
- Inflation
- Deflation
- Pendleton Civil Service Act
- Bland-Allison Act
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Contract Labor Act
- Enumerator