Lack of government regulation of business practices.
Horizontal integration is the practice of buying smaller businesses creating competition so a company can have a monopoly over the sale of an item. Vertical integration is the practice of buying companies that supply the process of of a manufactured item from raw materials to transportation.
Corporate tycoons of the Gilded Age were able to use these economic practices because there were no laws or regulations to prevent them from doing so. John Rockefeller was an expert at horizontal integration. He bought oil industries out so he could be the sole provider of oil in America. Carnegie was an expert in vertical integration. He bought iron mines, creating steel mills, and bought rail lines to transport his goods. These practices made tycoons wildly wealthy which allowed them to continue buying and investing more to become more wealthy and powerful.
Trade sanctions, embargo, and terrorist
It was before the era of railways hence waterways were critical factor. They determined the population centers access to trade. Examples rivers (New Orleans, Cincinnati), Great Lakes (Chicago, Detroit), canals (Milwaukee) and obviously sea port cities (New York)
D. all of the above: The U.S. created a naval blockade that prohibited Soviet ships fromentering or leaving waters near Cuba; President John F. Kennedy communicated with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev; and t<span>he U.S. dismantled its missiles located in Turkey.
</span><span>C. Communism spread through Eastern Europe, dividing the continent.</span>
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Australia
Sorry i know the first answer only
