Which of the following was in large part a consequence of Upton Sinclair's 1906 book The Jungle?
a. Drug manufacturers agreed to stop selling impure merchandise.
b. President Roosevelt supported passage of the Meat Inspection Act.
c. Railroad rate-making was taken out of the hands of the railroad industry and put into the hands of the ICC.
d. President Roosevelt supported legislation to guarantee the right of workers to bargain collectively.
b
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The philosophy of the New Deal is best described as
A) totally rejecting previous American ideas and experiences. B) emerging from FDR's long fascination with social and economic theories. C) lacking any consistent ideological base. D) rooted firmly in Wilson's New Freedom.
The official primary motives of European expansion were "God, glory, and gold."
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What does this image of African American abolitionists killing a Maryland slaveholder searching for his runaway slave in Christiana, Pennsylvania, and the case of Shadrach Minkins, a runaway who was physically removed from his court hearing in
Boston by abolitionists, reveal about abolitionists' attitudes toward the Fugitive Slave Act? A) Abolitionists were willing to cooperate with slaveholders and return their property. B) Abolitionists turned to religion to convince the public to resist this law. C) Abolitionists were willing to break laws to resist the Fugitive Slave Act. D) Abolitionists adhered to "personal liberty laws" that prohibited Northern state and local courts from trying cases of runaway slaves.
In what way did Theodore Roosevelt embody the concept of pragmatism?
A) In breaking the trusts and large corporations, he demonstrated that he believed in natural laws instead of actions. B) In deciding to run for a third term, he demonstrated a belief in the absolute truth of his right to the presidency. C) He approached problems not by applying an ideology, but in an ad hoc manner. D) In his conservation of wilderness in America, he demonstrated his belief in divine laws, meaning that God had given America the land to take care of. E) In his unequal treatment of African Americans, he demonstrated the pragmatic ability to be “tough-minded” in a world with no easy answers.