Which of the following BEST describes horizontal integration?

A company acquires similar competing businesses and merges them into a single entity.

The economic development of flatlands in the American west.

A company owns all the businesses that supply it with raw goods and necessary services.

When the government lets businesses operate without restrictions.

Why were Railroads so important?

They connected the North and the South

Moved Raw Materials across the country

Transported people quickly and easily

Vertical Integration is when a company _____________.

Controls all the aspects of the manufacturing process

Eliminates a company from the top down

Promotes people from within the company

Integrates new technology into the steel industry

Why were immigrants leaving their countries to come to the United States?

Many countries were experiencing push factors such as poverty, war, and unemployment.

Many people were experiencing pull factors such as poverty, war, and unemployment.

Immigrants who came into the Untied States through Angel Island found most of their work where?

The building of the Transcontinental Railroad

A demand of labor unions, like the Knights of Labor, to long working hours was to ask for

Government ownership of railroads

In the early 1900s, a major goal of the American Federation of Labor was to

improve wages and working conditions for laborers

end restrictions on child labor

admit women to the nation's industrial workforce

join all workers into a single union of factory workers

In the late 1800s, why were union leaders mainly opposed to immigration?

It took jobs away from Americans

It was a fiscal drain on unions.

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Labor union that used strikes as a major tactic. Successful in winning higher wages and shorter workweeks

One of the first NFL football teams to join the league

Method used to increase union membership during the late 1890s and early 1900s

Labor union that welcomed both skilled and unskilled laborers

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Invented the phonograph, battery, and light bulb?

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What was America's first big business?

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What process created a cheap way to transform iron into lighter and stronger steel?

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Leader in Railroads

What connected the eastern and western US

Leader in Steel industry

Leader in the oil industry

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