Vertical integration — Social Studies definition

Combining different stages of a production and distribution chain.

Where it is taught

• Industrial Growth, Corporations & the Gilded Age — Industry, Migration & Urban Life, U.S. History: Reconstruction to the Early 21st Century, Grade 8
• Industrialization, Corporate Power & Federal Regulation — Industry, Migration & Gilded Age Politics, United States History & Government: Colonial Foundations to the Early 21st Century, Grade 11

Taught alongside

• context
• corroboration
• interpretation
• horizontal integration
• evidence

Elsewhere

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