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title: "How did John D. Rockefeller use trusts to avoid Ohio laws against horizontal integration?"  
description: "How did John D. Rockefeller use trusts to avoid Ohio laws against horizontal integration?"  
author: "Richardson hayes"  
published: 2018-04-24  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41432/how-did-john-d-rockefeller-use-trusts-to-avoid-ohio-laws-against-horizontal-integration  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How did John D. Rockefeller use trusts to avoid Ohio laws against horizontal integration? 

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