The United Fruit Company was to vertical integration as this company was to horizontal combination
A) U.S. Steel
B) Sears, Roebuck and Company
C) Standard Oil
D) American Tobacco
Answer: C
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A) the Iliad and the Odyssey. B) Herodotus's histories. C) Plutarch's work. D) Cyrus the Great. E) Darius the Great.
What was a common trend in the Latin American banana republics after World War I?
A) A rejection of American investment. B) Extensive support from European humanitarians. C) Economic imperialism by the US. D) A severance of ties with Europe. E) Initial support for Marxist revolution.
Common white people in the South often expressed their dissatisfaction with the slave-holding local planter elite by
a. helping slaves escape. b. openly rebelling against their superiors. c. moving North. d. voting.