1. Chapter 14
Mrs. D. Hedges/ US History
(1860-1900)

2. Corporation
•Vertical
integration
•Horizontal integration
•Merger
•Monopoly
•Trust
•Holding
Company

3. Oil: J.D. Rockefeller
•Cleveland, Ohio
•Standard Oil
Company
•Business Tactics
•Giving Back to
America
•Economic Terms

4. Steel:Andrew Carnegie
•Carnegie Steel
Company
•Bessemer Process
•Business Tactics
•Giving Back to
America
•Economic Terms

5. Banking:J.P. Morgan
•J.P. Morgan and Co.
•United States Steel
•Railroads
•Business Tactics
•Giving Back to
America
•Economic Terms

6. Railroad:Cornelius Vanderbilt
•Steamboats
•Railroads
•Business Tactics
•Giving Back to
America
•Economic Terms

7. Electricity:Thomas Alva Edison
•Electric current
• D/C- Direct Current
• A/C- Alternating Current
• George Westinghouse
•Menlo
Park Laboratory
• Phonograph
• Light bulb
• First motion picture
cameras
•General
Electric Co.

8. Communications:Alexander Graham Bell
•Inventor
the deaf”
and “teacher of
• Wanted to find ways to
help deaf people
• Sound transmission
• Simultaneous telegraphs
•Bell
Telephone Co.
• In time, it became
• American Telephone and
Telegraph Co. (AT&T)