The term Robber Barons refers to

A) ?corrupt politicians
B) ?immigrants who are perceived to take jobs away from native-born Americans
C) ?wealthy industrialists who dominated the corporate United States in the late nineteenth century
D) municipal tax collectors
E) None of these are correct.


C

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A. a moderate political alternative to socialism and secular capitalism B. a religiously guided alternative to Marxism C. new ways to challenge modernism within the Catholic Church D. papal control of university education in majority-Catholic countries

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What was the result of the implementation of Tiberius Gracchus's land-redistribution proposal?

A) It set up small farmers to fail again. B) It helped small farmers regain prosperity. C) It played into the hands of the optimates. D) It continued to favor large landowners. E) It decreased the numbers of slave workers.

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What state enfranchised both male and female property holders in 1776?

A. New Jersey B. Virginia C. Georgia D. Maryland

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The New Nationalism:

a. was a program of labor and social reform advocated by Woodrow Wilson. b. helped to unite Republicans around the candidacy of William Howard Taft. c. was used as a rationale for Roosevelt to "take" the Panama Canal. d. was a program of labor and social reform advocated by Roosevelt in the 1912 election.

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