1. Rockefeller envisioned the consolidation of many small oil refineries into one giant company that controlled the production because, when the market for oil grew, the amount of buyers grew more, leading to prices going up and down and many small companies wet into bankruptcy. They created what they called "Our Plan" through Standard Oil to save the industry, by combining the businesses
2. The three major railroads running through Cleveland and the Oil Regions of Pensylvannia were really costly, but when they were initially setup and the traffic started to grow more and more, the costs decreased, causing very high losses to the them. Since Standard Oil had the market power they were able to get discounts on railway freight rates. If a railroad did not wish to work with the Standard’s demands they would just ship with another railroad, so most of the railroads ended up agreed to work with them to continue with the businesses. Railroads were Erie, New York Central, and Pennsylvania.
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Lincoln wanted to make sure that the new state governments in the south would comply with his policy of emancipation of slaves and be lenient towards them.
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- As soon as the Civil War came to an end, President Lincoln took up the task of the reunification of the nation.
- For the states in the south, he prepared the ten percent plan and appealed to the people of the south to take oath of allegiance to the United States, of the emancipation of slaves, and of leniency towards them.
- Lincoln assured them that once the oath is taken, he would permit each state to frame new Constitutions of their own.
Option C. Germany invades Soviet Union; Allies invade Normandy; Potsdam Conference
Germany - September 17, 1939
Normandy - June 6, 1944
Potsdam - July 17-Aug.2, 1945
This process is natural selection<span>. The traits that confer an advantage to those individuals who leave more offspring are called </span>adaptations<span>. In order for </span>natural selection<span> to operate on a trait, the trait must possess heritable variation and must confer an advantage in the competition for resources.</span>
A tropical rain forest is a densely wooded area that receives an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches and has broad-leafed evergreen trees that form a continuous canopy.
