How did new business structures such as corporations, pools, trusts and holding companies lead to the elimination of competition between these businesses? What was their impact on consumers and workers?

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You forgot to mention the historic period in time or further reference or the kind of businesses you are referring to. However, it seems that you are referring to the Gilded Age. If that is the case, then we can comment on the following.

Business structures such as corporations, pools, trusts, and holding companies led to the elimination of competition between businesses because the large companies started to buy their competitors and integrated horizontally to the extent that they became monopolies.

We are talking about the cases of the Standard Oil Company that belonged to John F. Rockefeller and the Steel Company that belonged to Angres Carnegie.

The impact on consumers and workers was that consumers could not have enough options to choose from. They had to pay the price as it was without any other options. Workers labored under unhealthy and dangerous conditions, working for long hours with low salaries.

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2. carter: president from 1977 to 1981, carter had controversial poitions over abortion, but yet, he enforce the roe vs wade decision, which had pro-choice content.

3. reagan. for his eloquency and powerful speeches in his mandates, from 1981 to 1989, reagan earned this nickname, “the great communicator” .

4. george h w bush: despite many presidents had important roles in managing and trying to end the cold war, it was in bush sr's mandate that the berlin wall was materially destroyed, and he was visited by gorbachev in the uspresident from 1989 to 1993.

5. clinton: defense of marriage act. clinton signed this controvesial act, which defined marriage and spouses in strict heterosexual perspective, that was later declard unconstitutional by the us supreme court.

6. george w bush: in the begining of his presidency, which lasted until 2009, bush jr faced the greatest terrorist attacks in us and probably the worlds history, in september, 11 of 2001.

7. obama: in attempts to cease a great economical crisis, barack obama signed the controversial recovery act in february 2009, which handled 780-billion dollars.

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