Rise of Industry & Monopolies

Three main causes of industrial growth in America are the natural resources, government support for businesses and the growing urban population. Trust and monopolies during America's early industrial age created separation between industrialists and the workers and bad working conditions for them. Company owners got rich from controlling production, wages, and prices. Monopolies began in the United States because the United States has many natural resources which was great for a lot of different businesses. Money is all that mattered to these business owners. Rockefeller argued that it was okay for workers to get paid low wages because they donated money back into a facility for the people to find cures for diseases.