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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 12 | Part 2, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event in the 1920s plunged oil into dire straits?
(a) Prohibition
(b) World War I
(c) The Tulsa Race Riot
(d) The Great Depression

2. What method of delivery for oil did the oil companies settle on to avoid teamster conflicts?
(a) Tanker trucks
(b) Trains
(c) Boats
(d) Pipelines

3. Who did FDR appoint to head the Department of the Interior, in addition to the newly created positions of Oil Administrator and Public Works Administrator?
(a) August Hogg
(b) Harold Ickes
(c) Thomas Stirling
(d) Adam Joiner

4. Between 1911 and 1918, oil consumption rose how much in the United States?
(a) 30%
(b) 90%
(c) 55%
(d) 5%

5. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?
(a) Chile
(b) Panama
(c) Mexico
(d) Brazil

Short Answer Questions

1. What denied foreign interests access to drilling rights on public lands if their governments denied similar access to Americans?

2. Who stepped in to restore order as majors and independents feuded in the United States?

3. Who tried to take over Britain's naval superiority in the 1890s, which instead strengthened Britain's resolve?

4. The "horseless carriage" was developed by whom?

5. Who launched an investigation into Standard Oil?

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