How Did the Committee on Public Information Present Its Message

question 67

Multiple Choice

How did the Committee on Public Information present its message to encourage Americans to remain loyal and support the war effort?

• A) The Creel Committee often relied on veiled threats.
• B) The CPI frequently invoked the alien and sedition acts.
• C) The CPI rhetoric commonly tried to pit immigrants against native-born Americans.
• D) The CPI packaged its appeals in the language of social cooperation and an expanded democracy.
• E) The Creel Committee combined its patriotic appeals with advertisements on special bargains for household goods.

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Import Competition

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Herfindahl Index

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The proportion of a market controlled by a particular company, product, or service in relation to total sales in the market.

Herfindahl Index

A measure of market concentration that sums the squares of the market shares of all firms in the industry.