As a Result of the Hepburn Act, __________________

question 47

Multiple Choice

As a result of the Hepburn Act, __________________.

• A) the government gained sufficient power to stop all railroad abuses
• B) the government gained the power to regulate working hours in the railroad industry
• C) workers in the railroad industry received higher wages and the promise of automatic cost-of-living increases
• D) the ICC gained more authority to fix railroad rates, but the courts could still overturn rate decisions

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Definitions:

Registered Republicans

Individuals officially registered to vote as members of the Republican Party in the United States.

Pooled Variance T-test

A statistical test that combines the variances of two samples to test the hypothesis that the means of two populations are equal under the assumption of equal variances.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information in a dataset available for estimating parameters or calculating a statistic, usually defined as the number of observations minus the number of parameters being estimated.

Independent Populations

Populations that have no interaction with each other, implying that the sample from one population is not influenced by the other.