History of the United States II / Unit 3 USH2 0322 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Merger Wave
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The idea
More than three hundred mergers had taken place by nineteen oh five, leaving about one percent of businesses in control of over forty percent of the economy.
In practice
Thousands of small firms folded into a few hundred giants.
Where people slip
Digital History agrees: in nineteen oh four, firms under one percent of the total made forty percent of the nation's goods.
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