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Nebraska’S Live Stock Sanitary Commission And The Rise Of American Progressivism, David Lee Amstutz
Nebraska’S Live Stock Sanitary Commission And The Rise Of American Progressivism, David Lee Amstutz
Great Plains Quarterly
In the years after the Civil War, the United States experienced tremendous economic growth. Entrepreneurs such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie built giant corporate businesses that dominated entire industries. The practice of vertical integration- in which a single business controlled all aspects of production and marketing-drew workers from different areas together under the same employers. Moreover, the corporations conducted interstate commerce, and they became powerful enough to drive competitors out of business. With their smaller rivals removed, the corporations were free to market their goods across the United States. As efforts to foster economic prosperity continued into the …