Answer: What powers did states have under the Articles of confederation? Each state held ''its Sovereignty, freedom and independence and every power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United states, in congress assembled'' the congress the primary organ of the new national government only had the power to declare war, appoint military.
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His official motivation was to outmaneuver suspected diplomatic efforts by the British government for emancipation of slaves in Texas, which would undermine slavery in the United States. Through secret negotiations with the Houston administration, Tyler secured a treaty of annexation
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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.
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Credit Mobilier was a sham construction company chartered to build the Union Pacific Railroad by financing it with unmarketable bonds.
Oakes Ames of Massachusetts
James Brooks of New York
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It provided a mechanism to dispense the immense profits from building the railroad to the board of directors and its shareholders.
The "Emancipation Proclamation" issued by President Lincoln as the Civil War came to a close declared slaves were to be freed throughout the entire US.
