Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, involves "<span>A.) merging with companies producing similar products," since this often leads to increased profits for the company that is in charge of the merger. </span>
When Africans were brought to America to be sold as slaves, they brought food from their home continent with them. These foods became incorporated in what would become known as Southern food.
A. influenced in part by Islam
Because it expressed the fact that Americans didn't want European countries that had economic or colonists interests to put a foot in the United States.