This statement is true. When Texas seceded from the United States in 1861, it <span>once </span>again,<span> became an independent republic. Texas was the seventh state to secede from the Union with the vote count of 166 against 8</span><span>. They became republic and stayed neutral.</span>
-Tejano: A texan of Latin American, often Mexican, descent.
-Annex: To add a territory to one's own territory.
-Decree: Official order.
-Barricade: To black off.
<span>The election of 1860 saw the destruction of the Whig party because of the institution of slavery. The party was divided by those who supported slavery and those who did not. This is what caused the Whig party to fall to pieces.</span>
<span>Anne uses sarcasm to point out the ridiculous ways the other Secret Annex members behave, like when she refers to Mrs. Van Daan as “Madame” or Mr. Dussel as “His Lordship”. She also says that Mrs. Van Daan is selfish, cunning, pushy, and never content. Anne also tells what Mr. Dussel does: he hoards food, takes a quarter of the gravy during dinner, gives people a silent treatment, and snores in the middle of the night which shows that Mr. Dussel is irritating and selfish.<span>
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<span>Business leaders pushed for horizontal integration. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil began buying out competitors. By 1880, it controlled about 90 percent of the U.S. oil refining industry, a near monopoly. When People opposed this horizontal integration fearing monopolies will charge heavily the business leaders found two ways to overcome this obstacle by creating Trusts and Holding Companies.
A trust is a legal arrangement that allows one person to manage another person’s property. The person who manages that property is called a trustee. The trustees could control a group of companies as if they were one large, merged company. In 1882 Standard Oil formed the first trust. Standard Oil had stockholders of that company give their stock to Standard Oil trustees in exchange for shares in the trust and its profits.
A new general incorporation law in 1889 allowed corporations to own stock in other businesses without special legislative permission. Many companies used the law to create holding companies. A holding company does not produce anything itself but owns the stock of companies that do produce goods. The holding company manages its companies, effectively merging them into one.</span>
