Which of the Following Best Indicates the Policy That the United

question 61

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best indicates the policy that the United States government followed toward business during World War I?

• A) busting more trusts during the war years than in the preceding dozen years.
• B) deregulating most of the transportation and communications industries.
• C) operating the railroads and creating five thousand government agencies to supervise home-front activities.
• D) proclaiming that the war for democracy would be won by showing the world that private industry could do the job without regulation.
• E) imposing many new regulations on business and industry but supervised them with a minimum of bureaucracy.

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Definitions:

Personality Development

The formation of an individual's distinctive character traits, behaviors, and patterns of thinking across the lifespan.

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies unconsciously used to protect a person from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings.

Repression

A defense mechanism where unpleasant thoughts, memories, or desires are kept out of conscious awareness.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory introduced by Sigmund Freud, which suggests that a child has unconscious sexual desires for their opposite-sex parent and hostility toward the same-sex parent.