The United Fruit Company was to vertical integration as this company was to horizontal combination
A) U.S. Steel
B) Sears, Roebuck and Company
C) Standard Oil
D) American Tobacco
Answer: C
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A) the Iliad and the Odyssey. B) Herodotus's histories. C) Plutarch's work. D) Cyrus the Great. E) Darius the Great.
What was a common trend in the Latin American banana republics after World War I?
A) A rejection of American investment. B) Extensive support from European humanitarians. C) Economic imperialism by the US. D) A severance of ties with Europe. E) Initial support for Marxist revolution.
Common white people in the South often expressed their dissatisfaction with the slave-holding local planter elite by
a. helping slaves escape. b. openly rebelling against their superiors. c. moving North. d. voting.
Social Darwinism is best defined as
A) the idea that society can be freed from bondage and class warfare through a new program eliminating private ownership of property and the institution of marriage. B) the idea that some individuals, races, and nations are "fitter" than others and will thereby dominate or destroy weaker rivals. C) a view that holds that any use of authority¾economic, religious, or political¾is an unjustified interference with the individual. D) a type of socialism based upon an idealized society where owners give up their businesses and everyone works for the greater good. E) None of these