Which of the following is a reason why the progressives were unable to reach all of their goals?
select one:
a. the businesses were able to influence politicians and political actions which contrasted with progressive goals.
b. all of these are correct.
c. the business owners were granted the power to appoint supreme court justices in 1898.
d. the business owners provided all of the money to expand the military which gave them the power to stop the progressives.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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b. shared language, culture, and ethnicity

that is called

oppositional defiant disorder (odd)

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