Rockefeller monopolized the petroleum industry by:
A) controlling all oil drilling rigs in the country.
B) investing in technologically advanced equipment that produced refined petroleum.
C) bribing officials to spread his business across borders.
D) establishing regional outlets that undersold well-established companies.
E) employing cheap labor who worked long hours at minimum wage.
D
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A) both Cass and Taylor took deliberately vague positions on slavery in the territories B) Cass strongly opposed the annexation of California C) Taylor proposed the doctrine of "popular sovereignty" D) the Free-Soil Party demanded the extension of slavery to all territories
Friedrich Nietzsche portrayed Christianity as a religion that __________.
A. glorified the strength that life required B. glorified human weakness C. demanded heroic living D. superseded in glory the demands of war
According to the text, in his synthesis, the law of universal gravitation brought together
a. the experimental successes of the new science, its mathematical sophistication, and its philosophical revolution. b. the ideas of Aristotle, Copernicus, and Galileo. c. the science of Kepler, Galileo, and Ptolemy. d. Descartes, Christian Neo-Platonism, Newton's mathematical genius, and Kepler. e. Christian Neo-Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Copernicus.
How many military districts was the South split into during Reconstruction?
a. 5 b. 10 c. 15 d. 20