Unit 7 Progress Check: MCQ with correct answers

Unit 7 Progress Check: MCQ with correct answers "[John D. Rockefeller, the owner of the Standard Oil Company] secured an alliance with the railroads to drive out rivals. For fifteen years he received rebates of varying amounts on at least the greater part of his shipments, and for at least a portion of that time he collected drawbacks of the oil other people shipped; at the same time he worked with the railroads to prevent other people getting oil to manufacture, or if they got it he worked with the railroads to prevent the shipment of the product. If it reached a dealer, he did his utmost to bully or wheedle him to countermand his order. If he failed in that, he undersold until the dealer, losing on his purchase, was glad to buy thereafter of Mr. Rockefeller. . . . "We, the people of the United States, and nobody else, must cure whatever is wrong in the industrial situation, typified by this narrative of the growth of the Standard Oil Company. That our first task - Correct Answer *Excerpt* Which of the following can be concluded based on the historical context in which the excerpt was produced? - Correct Answer Americans were uncertain how to deal with the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy. The purpose of the speech in the excerpt best supports which of the following arguments about United States foreign policy in the 1910s? - Correct Answer Political leaders advocated applying democratic principles to relationships between countries. A limitation of using the speech excerpted to study opposition to the League of Nations is that the speech - Correct Answer was given before the Treaty of Versailles was concluded The speech could best be used by a historian studying which of the following historical situations related to the First World War? - Correct Answer The changes in traditional ideas about United States noninvolvement in Europe