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George Westinghouse

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Train Air Brake

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Henry Ford

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Assembly Line

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Orville and Wilbur Wright

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Airplanes

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2
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George Pullman

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Railroad Sleeping Car

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3
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Gustavus Swift

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Refrigerated Rail car

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4
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Thomas Edison

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Improved Light Bulb / Menlo Park

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5
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Alexander Graham Bell

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Telephone

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6
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Eli Janney

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Train Coupling

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7
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Factors of production

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land, labor, capital

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8
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Vertical integration

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Purchasing companies in all stages of production. Cattle to slaughter house to refrigerated rail cars to meat packaging to delivery carts.

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9
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Horizontal integration

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Purchase competing companies in same industry. Other oil companies into big oil company.

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10
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What law was against monopolys?

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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11
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Who formed Standard Oil through horizontal integration?

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John D Rockefellers

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12
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Who dominated the steel industry through vertical integration?

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Andrew Carnegie

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13
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Who owned 90% of the railroads in his time?

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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14
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What’s a monopoly?

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A monopoly is a company that controls most or all of an industry.

15
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What’s consolidation?

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Consolidation is the process of combining two different companies into one.