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Top 10 Largest American Companies

Top 10 Largest American Companies. Answer the following questions about the chart above. 1. What are the three largest American companies? 2. Which industry is the represented the most on the top 10 list? 3. Why is Wal-Mart the largest American company when it sells

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Top 10 Largest American Companies

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  1. Top 10 Largest American Companies Answer the following questions about the chart above. 1. What are the three largest American companies? 2. Which industry is the represented the most on the top 10 list? 3. Why is Wal-Mart the largest American company when it sells everything cheaper? 4. Which companies do you think are on the rise? On the fall?

  2. Why did Big Business Grow? Reasons Why Big Business Grew Key Terms The Growth of Industry Industrial Cities Important People

  3. Why did Big Business Grow? Reasons Why Big Business Grew Key Terms • Availability of work force • National markets created by transportation • Lower-cost production • Inventions • Advertising • Financial resources • Access to raw materials and energy • Monopoly: exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices • Dividend: a sum of money paid to shareholders of corporation out of earnings • Shareholder: a holder or owner of shares, esp. in a company or corporation. • Captain of Industry: the head of a large business firm. The Growth of Industry Industrial Cities Important People • John D. Rockefeller • Standard Oil • Andrew Carnegie • Steel • Henry Ford • Automobile • Cornelius Vanderbilt • Railroad • Pittsburg – Steel • Detroit – Automobile • Chicago – Meat Packing • New England - Textiles

  4. Growth of Industry Worksheet Directions: Analyze the political cartoon and answer the following questions What company does the octopus represent? What objects is the octopus grabbing and controlling? According to the artist is the octopus a monopoly? Why/why not? Do you think the artist likes monopolies? Why/ Why not? Bonus: What other industries were dominated by monopolies at the beginning of the 1900s?

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