On the Issue of Regulating Big Business, President Harding

question 58

Multiple Choice

On the issue of regulating big business, President Harding:

• A) showed his support for regulation by pressuring Congress to pass stricter laws
• B) named conservative advocates of big business to head the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade Commission
• C) and his administration brought a record number of suits against corporations
• D) named Robert La Follette, a former leading progressive, to head a government commission to investigate unfair business practices
• E) appointed former president William Howard Taft as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

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