What Was the Significance of the American Tobacco Company

question 62

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the American Tobacco Company?

• A) Bankrupt soon after its founding after the Civil War, it demonstrated the often insurmountable economic difficulties due to the South's ongoing dependence on plantations over factories.
• B) Contrary to many companies in the North that joined forces with their competitors, it remained a tiny but successful family owned business and offered a model for the rest of the South.
• C) Run by the Duke family and controlling the majority of the nation's cigarette production, it contributed to the dramatic rise of the tobacco industry in the post-Civil War South.
• D) The first such government-owned company in the United States, it came to represent the federal government's approach to rebuilding the nation's economy and agriculture after the Civil War.
• E) The North's largest industrial employer, it greatly helped revamp the nation's economy after the Civil War and brought migrants to New England in massive numbers.

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