US Chapter 3

Construction of the Union Pacific Railroad pushed west from

• St. Louis, Missouri.
• Omaha, Nebraska.
• Ogden, Utah.
• Chicago, Illinois.

According to the concept of laissez-faire, prices and wages are best determined by the

• federal government.
• free market.
• gross national product.
• individual states.

Who invented the telephone, which revolutionized both business and personal communication?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Edwin Drake

• George Pullman

• Thomas Alva Edison

One reason for America’s industrial success was its

• abundant raw materials.
• access to oceans.
• small workforce.
• wide open spaces.

One business that buys up a bunch of the competitors is trying to follow which approach?

• a holding company.
• a trust.
• horizontal integration.
• vertical integration.

By linking the nation, railroads helped increase the size of markets for

• cities.
• homesteaders.
• Native Americans.
• products.

What type of business does not produce anything itself?

• a corporation
• a holding company
• a monopoly
• a stock fund

The railroad boom began in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the

• Gettysburg Address.
• Land Grant Law.
• Pacific Railway Act.
• time zone legislation.

Workers who tried to organize a union or strike were often fired and placed on a list of “troublemakers” called the

• blacklist.
• outlist.
• strikelist
• unionlist

The 1894 Pullman strike was halted by?

• a court order
• federal troops
• The American Railway Union
• the Pullman Company