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

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