In 1882, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company was organized as the first major __________.
a) trust
b) gauge
c) trunk line
d) investment bank
a) trust
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Jose Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish writer who
A) questioned the value of mass democracy. B) argued that capitalism was doomed. C) believed liberalism would save Europe. D) foretold a coming cultural golden age. E) trusted the masses to check the power of elites.
The policy of ________ encouraged Hitler to acquire territory and power
What will be an ideal response?
The term détente has been used to describe President Nixon's __________
A) threat to use nuclear weapons in the Vietnam War B) foreign policy to ease tensions between the United States and China and the Soviet Union C) campaign of illegal wiretapping of alleged "enemies" of his administration D) psychological state in the last years of his presidency
As a result of the Union fighting to a draw militarily at Antietam Creek with Robert E. Lee's Confederate army
a. Lincoln named George McClellan commander of the Union forces. b. the North decided to fight a war of containment. c. Lincoln was now prepared to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. d. Lincoln decided that the key to the war was controlling the Mississippi River. e. the Union commanders were left without an overall military strategy.