The correct answer is The company controlled every step of steel production, from raw materials to distribution.
Andrew Carneige was a famous business man in America during the Gilded Age. His greatest success dealt with Carneige Steel. Besides owning the steel factories in Pittsburgh, Carneige also had control over the means of transportation, the raw materials themselves, and the businesses he interacted with. This is known as vertical integration.
Vertical integration is when one business controls all of the factors involved with developing and selling their good/product.
Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of today's United States. Historians worked a lot to trace the route of his expedition. It started in 1539. in Florida: de Soto landed his ships in Tampa Bay. In 1540., they continued to move north-east, through today's Georgia, having heard the gold being mined "towards the sun's rising". The expedition continued trough present-day South Carolina and then to north, across Appalachian Mounthains of North Carolina, and after that entered Tennessee. In 1941. de Soto and his expedition turned westwards, and reached river Mississippi. De Soto was the first European man that crossed Mississippi. They continued trough modern-day Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and later returned to Mississippi. De Soto died in 1942.
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Trade was a commonly used way to obtain items back in the day, people would give one item in exchange for another, allowing people to have access to items they didn't have before.
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