Why did the Supreme Court rule that the Sherman Antitrust Act did not apply to the E. C. Knight Company?
a. The company was a manufacturer.
b. The company’s headquarters were not in the United States.
c. The company was formed before the law was enacted.
d. The company only controlled 20 percent of its market.
a. The company was a manufacturer.
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The phrase l'uomo universale means that one should
A. be capable of achievements in many areas. B. reject religion and become a student of the universe. C. specialize in great depth in a single subject, such as history or physics. D. turn to God as the only answer to the problems of this world. E. reject public service and satisfy one's personal ambitions.
Which of the following tribes were not Plains Indians?
A) the Hopi B) the Cheyenne C) the Sioux D) the Comanche E) the Arapaho
Which of the following statements is correct?
A. William Harper argued that slaveholding was essentially a matter of property rights. B. Proslavery writers in the 1840s and 1850s asserted that whites were the more intellectual race, and blacks the race more inherently physical and destined for labor. C. Presbyterian minister George Bourne was welcomed in Virginia for his antislavery sermons. D. John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams were close allies in the antislavery movement.
Why did the possibility of individuals making a fortune in California through the panning, sluicing, and cradling of gold essentially evaporate by 1851?
A) Gold mining had become transformed into large-scale hydraulic mining, requiring large corporate investments and reducing miners to hired labor.
B) The Gold Rush had exhausted the supply of gold to be mined in California by 1853.
C) Hired laborers could now make a small fortune working for large-scale, hydraulic mining operations.
D) The fierce competition from African slaves and Indian miners overwhelmed the ability of individual miners to make their fortunes.