What did the illustrator of this cartoon imply by depicting Standard Oil as an octopus grabbing many different people and objects?
A) Standard Oil's practice of vertical integration was an efficient way of eliminating
competition.
B) Standard Oil was trying to gain the same control of the presidency as it had done with
Congress and the courts.
C) John D. Rockefeller was a benevolent entrepreneur whose philanthropy helped the nation.
D) Standard Oil was planning to invest in off-shore drilling.
B
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A. By meeting with US Senators and with Congressmen to create a special tax wherein the money would go to meeting food and shelter needs of the immigrants B. by founding a settlement house to meet a variety of immigrant needs C. By encouraging them to support the city boss in the city in which they lived D. by leading a protest against the Chinese Exclusion Act
What is the historical significance of the rise of the modern advertising in the 1920s?
What will be an ideal response?
Women were less likely than men to flee slavery, probably because
A) they often had young children. B) they were to weak to do so. C) they were fewer in number than men. D) plantation life suited them.
George Washington's early military setbacks convinced him to
A) engage the British in frontal combat. B) harass the British, making the war as costly for them as possible. C) lead an assault on Canada. D) seek a final attempt at reconciliation with the British.