What made President Theodore Roosevelt's position on the 1902 coal strike in Pennsylvania unique from previous presidential policies regarding labor interests?
A) He stood up publicly to big business and helped negotiate better conditions for laborers.
B) His order of sending in federal troops to break up a strike was the first time this was done by a
president.
C) He broke up the trust that coal mine owners had set up to protect workers' interests.
D) He filed a lawsuit in federal court against the mine owners.
A
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The following chronological order is correct to the best of our knowledge:
a. End of last Ice Age; Beginnings of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent; First evidence of rice cultivation in the Yangzi Valley. b. Lapita cultural complex in western Pacific; First evidence of rice cultivation in the Yangzi Valley; Beginnings of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. c. End of last Ice Age; Homo sapiens emerges in East Africa; First evidence of rice cultivation in the Yangzi Valley. d. Beginnings of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent; City-states appear in Greece and Ionia; Flourishing of Harappan culture in the Indus River valley.
President Reagan’s role in the Iran-Contra scandal was
a. never clearly identified. b. that of a man kept in the dark by his subordinates. c. to oversee the illegal trade from the start. d. never a question in the investigation. e. none of these choices.