Roosevelt reacted to the creation of the Northern Securities Company by
A) suing to have it dissolved under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
B) summoning J. P. Morgan and James J. Hill to the White House for a tongue-lashing.
C) threatening to nationalize the railroads involved unless they voluntarily dissolved their merger.
D) hailing it as an example of responsible behavior by big business.
A
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a) Voters b) Students c) Farm workers d) Factory workers
Which of the following statements about the Merger Movement of the late nineteenth century is most accurate?
a. Investment bankers played an insignificant role in the mergers that created enormous new corporations. b. The merger movement resulted partly from economic weaknesses, partly in response to the threat of vicious competition among reviving manufacturing companies. c. Andrew Carnegie successfully fought off J.P. Morgan's hostile bid on this United States Steel Corporation. d. In their organization of mergers, J.P. Morgan and other investment bankers were looking for short term gains at the cost of long-term stability.
Casualties on all sides of the Russian Civil War
a. included 550,000 peasants who resisted grain requisitions. b. totaled 1.2 million. c. were minimal. d. totaled 1.2 million, not counting executed Jews, famine deaths, and political opponents. e. were kept relatively low for a number of reasons, including a well-trained medical corps from the First World War.
When Lincoln gave Grant command of all Union forces, he was adopting a policy of __________.
A. offering the Confederacy easy terms for peace B. forcing the Confederacy to surrender to escape total destruction C. avoiding decisive battles at all cost D. preventing civilian casualties