Industrialization

Laissez-Faire relies on ________ to regulate prices and wages

• business

• supply and demand

• the GNP

• government

Because of the shortage of workers in California, the Central Pacific Railroad hired workers from

• China

• Japan

• Ireland

• Mexico

Did unions in the late 1800s exclude women?

• Yes

• No

Petroleum was in high demand because it could

• be turned into plastics

• power locomotives

• lubricate moving parts in machines

• could be turned into kerosene

During the early days of industrialization, many members of congress believed that tariffs were necessary to

• raise money for the government

• entice european consumers to buy american products

• raise the prices that europeans would have to pay for American products

• help new American industries compete with large established european factories

the government offered each railroad company building the transcontinental railroad land along its right of way to

• encourage the growth of towns along the tracks

• give railroad workers a place to live

• encourage rapid construction of the tracks

• allow companies to build stations at important points along the way

Economies of scale resulted in

• a wider variety of products

• lower costs higher prices

• higher costs and higher prices

• lower costs and lower prices

Construction of the transcontinental railroad pushed west from

• st louis, missouri

• ogden, utah

• chicago, illinois

• omaha, nebreska

two railroads that built the transcontinental railroad were the

• southern railway and union pacific

• southern railway and great northern

• union pacific and great northern

• union pacific and central pacific

Technique for breaking a union in which the company refused to allow the workers on the property and refused to pay them

• strikebreaker

• blacklist

• shutout

• lockout