The correct definition of Horizontal Integration is the acquisition of a business operating at the same level of the value chain in the same industry. This is in contrast to vertical integration, where firms expand into upstream or downstream activities, which are at different stages of production.
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<span>This period in the US that followed the Civil War
brought with it great farmer discontent because the entire Southern
agrarian economy had been ravaged, and many crop yields lessened due to
the abolishment of slavery. </span>
