Could somebody help? Will give brainliest! :) How did corporations assist the individual?

By increasing competition for the consumer
By lowering prices for the consumer
By distributing income to the owners
By hiring only skilled laborers

A or 1 > By increasing competition for the consumer

Explanation:

By increasing competition for the consumer

Explanation:

The first American corporations were developed in the 1790s, almost instantly becoming key institutions in the young nation's economy. Although corporations existed in Europe in the early-19th century – particularly in Great Britain and the Netherlands – no country took to corporate development like the United States. Corporate development was dealt a blow toward the turn of the 20th century with the introduction of antitrust legislation, but it quickly rebounded. The end of World War II created a period of unprecedented American corporate hegemony until the rise of Japanese competition in world markets in the 1980s

food and resources were plentiful.

women were encouraged to marry later in life so they could work in factories.

missouri compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery