Question

15.
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The ___ expanded the Sherman Antitrust Act to include holding companies.

Industrial Amendment

Sherman Addendum

Roosevelt Extension Act

Clayton Antitrust Act
16.
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In 1920 KDKA became the first _______ licensed radio station.

independently

commercially

private

openly
17.
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A ________ is an airship with a lightweight frame to maintain its shape.

zeppelin

blimp

hot air balloon
18.
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Thomas Edison created the first commercially practical _________ light bulb.

zeppelin

interchangeable

propaganda

incandescent
19.
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A(n) ________ is a group of businesses that make an informal agreement to cooperate in controlling a market or industry.

holding company

monopoly

pool

trust
20.
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______ followed Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson

William Jennings Bryant

William Howard Taft
21.
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The _______ Act of 1910 extended government oversight of rail shipping rates and communication companies.

Mann-Elkins

Elkins-Taft

Roosevelt-Elkins

Mann-Roosevelt
22.
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Which of these was NOT a tenet of Economic Progressivism?

national sales tax

redistribution of wealth

public welfare

regulation of business

Answer 1

15. Clayton Antitrust Act
16. commercially
17. zeppelin
18. incandescent
19. pool
20. William Howard Taft
21. Mann-Elkins
22. national sales tax