What techniques were used by carnegie and others to consolidate their industries? how did state governments respond?

Some of the techniques that Carnegie and other capitalists used include  cutthroat techniques to acquire or destroy competitor. These included temporarily undercutting prices of competitors until they went out of business or to make them sell out. Some states enacted anti-trust laws, but limited to intrastate.

its many islands, high mountains, and remote peninsulas isolated population centers.

in which two ways were the northeast woodland indians and the southeast indians similar? both collaborated to form the iroquois confederacy. both cultivated the crops of corn, beans, and squash. both lived in rich environments of swamps and rivers. both lived in tree-bark dwellings called wigwams. both expected men to hunt, while women farmed.