What was Rockefeller and Standard Oil Co actions

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

when in doubt choose c

it's what my teacher told my class when we were going into psats

c. businesses/firms & government