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D) the refrigerated box car
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C) horizontal consolidation- buying/driving out all other oil companies and/or entrepreneurs and vertical consolidation- buying into all other industries needed to minimize costs, maximize profits, and dominate the oil market.
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D) the federal government and Native Americans.
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C) Oklahoma
1. Which innovation had the GREATEST impact on the availability of fresh beef on the US east coast by the end of the 19th century?
A) the telegraph
B) the steel plow
C) the steam ship
D) the refrigerated box car
2. John D. Rockefeller was able to monopolize the oil market, due to
A) driving out or buying other oil industries; hiring only immigrants and former slaves, so he was able to pay workers far less money; received large investments from wealthy Americans that allowed him to excel quicker.
B) vertical consolidation- buying/driving out all other oil companies and/or entrepreneurs and horizontal consolidation- buying into all other industries needed to minimize costs, maximize profits, and dominate the oil market.
C) horizontal consolidation- buying/driving out all other oil companies and/or entrepreneurs and vertical consolidation- buying into all other industries needed to minimize costs, maximize profits, and dominate the oil market.
D) driving out or buying other oil industries; hiring only immigrants and former slaves, so he was able to pay workers far less money; invested money into the campaigns of major political leaders to avoid strict business laws.
3. America's westward expansion following the Civil War often resulted in conflict between
A free and slave states.
B northern and southern states.
C the Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
D the federal government and Native Americans.
4. In the late-1800s, the U.S. government attempted to place all Plains Indians on reservations mainly in which current state?
Responses
A California
B Nebraska
C Oklahoma
D Texas
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