Chapter 3 Industrialization

This is an example of

• horizontal integration

• vertical integration

• laissez-faire

• meat is murder

Railroad companies raised most of the money that they needed to build their railroads from

• hauling freight to market.

• private investors.

• selling government land grants.

• subsidies from tax revenues.

____ was equally as important as natural resources in the nation’s rapid industrialization.

• A new tariff law

• Increased population

• New technology

• The political system

Which transcontinental railroad operated without government subsidies and was the only one not forced into bankruptcy?

• Central Pacific Railroad

• Great Northern Railroad

• Pennsylvania Railroad

• Union Pacific Railroad

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

• Gettysburg Address

• Land Grant Law

• Pacific Railway Act

• time zone legislation

Which factor leading to industrialization was not influenced by government policies?

• abundant natural resources

• cheap immigrant labor

• high tariffs

• networks of communication and transportation

Scandals created the impression that railroad entrepreneurs were __, or people who looted an industry and gave nothing back.

• industrialists

• captains of industry

• robber barons

• CEO's

Thomas Alva Edison stood as a symbol for the emerging age of technology with his invention of the telephone.

• True

• False

The growth of the population between 1860 and 1910 provided industrialists with a large workforce and also created greater demand for the consumer goods factories produced.

• True

• False

A __________ was a technique for breaking a union through which the company refused to allow workers onto their property.

• blacklist

• lockout

• sit-down

• strike