Consolidation. A company buys up its competitors and forms one giant company. This is an example of
vertical
horizontal

answer; (religion)

i would say that the politicial parties from state to state varies.

according to worldatlas.com, the u.s. has an 86% literacy rate.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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