Question

in angelos town, a single internet provider is offering very slow speeds at high prices. recognizing the problem, the government stepped in and broke up the company. reflecting on the square deal, what was the governments main goal for intervention? to prioritize efforts to preserve the towns heritage and historical communication methods to ensure control of corporations to foster better competition, thus increasing quality and decreasing prices to emphasize the need for advances in technological infrastructure to better serve towns to encourage and celebrate innovative but fair business practices for the betterment of society

Explanation:

The Square Deal (by Teddy Roosevelt) aimed at regulating corporations to prevent monopolies, promote competition. The scenario has a monopoly (single ISP) with bad service/prices. The government broke it up to control corps, boost competition (so better quality, lower prices). Other options: preserving heritage (irrelevant), tech infrastructure emphasis (not Square Deal’s main goal here), celebrating business practices (not about breaking monopolies).

Answer:

B. To ensure control of corporations to foster better competition, thus increasing quality and decreasing prices