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magmichele12

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To prevent the spread of the Standard Oil Company's monopoly into Texas in 1889, the state's attorney general began to file antitrust suits against companies affiliated with Standard Oil. This suspicion of a major corporation is an expression of what?
 
  a. the Populist tradition in state politics
  b. the state's laissez faire culture
  c. the power of the Republican Party
  d. the state's cowboy culture
  e. the power of the national government

Question 2

Significant changes in the Texas economy at the turn of the twentieth century began with _____.
 
  a. the opening of overseas agricultural export markets
  b. the oil industry boom prompted by the discovery of the Spindletop field
  c. the construction of numerous military facilities during World War II
  d. the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy
  e. none of these



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

b



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