Telling the people that there the reason they are in there version of the depression and are economically unstable.
Early in his political career, Lincoln was a member of the "Whig" Party, since many of the Whigs were opposed to slavery, as Lincoln was. The Republican Party was "birthed" from the Whig Party.
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.