US History - Chapter 12
Across
- 3. it brought products of eastern industry to the growing populace beyond the Mississippi
- 9. cost advantages companies experience when production becomes efficient
- 13. he became the richest person in the country, controlling 90% of all oil in the United States at his peak
- 16. a legal arrangement that allows one person to manage another person’s property
- 17. a third party helps workers and employers reach an agreement
- 18. the total value of all finished goods and services produced by a country's citizens
- 19. one of the most unscrupulous “robber barons” of 19th-century American capitalism
- 20. a formal order to halt a boycott
- 21. an individual that creates a business
- 22. to break up existing unions
Down
- 1. companies could hire only union members
- 2. abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
- 4. superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859
- 5. a rise in the value of money
- 6. When a single company achieves control of an entire market
- 7. manages the companies it owns, effectively merging them into one large enterprise
- 8. a group of people or a company
- 10. united all the workers in a particular industry
- 11. a grant of land made by the government especially for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges
- 12. a person who commits capital with the expectation of receiving financial returns
- 14. was known for reorganizing businesses to make them more profitable and stable and gaining control of them
- 15. to unite with something else