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.
Answer:
Agreeing to a border along the 49th parallel.
Explanation:
James K. Polk was a candidate from Tennessee that was not known to most Americans and he was the responsible for created the “fifty-four or fight” slogan. Despite of that, he was secretly willing to compromise and not go into war. And in June 1846 Britain proposed splitting Oregon at the 49th parallel, Polk agreed with that and war was avoided.
Answer:
Each competed to have her own son chosen as the sultan’s heir.
Explanation:
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Hitler made many promises to the country of Germany in order to come to power. Most of the promises he made he didn't keep. After WWII Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles which was the main cause of Germany's economic problems at the time. The U.S. made loans to Germany to help with its failing economy. But when the market crashed in 1929, the U.S. could not continue to help out Germany. This helped set up hitler perfectly. The people of Germany were looking for someone who could help fix all the ongoing problems they were facing in Germany. At the time they lost all faith in their governments ability to take of its citizens. Hitler believed he could help the people in Germany and he promised them all relief. He also promise jobs for all the unemployed and a market for the farmers goods. Hitler began to appeal to people's emotions instead of their reasons. He told the people of Germany if they got rid of the Jews problems would vanish.
Answer:
Its content is mostly reliable because it accurately describes how the war began.
Explanation:
The Korean war began on June 25, 1950, when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.