A business owned by a group of people who own stock in the company.

• distribution network

• subsidy

• corporation

• stock market

Extending across the country.

• Manifest Destiny

• transcontinental

• tectonic

• subterranean

Dishonest practices in business or politics.

• commerce

• fissure

• boycott

• corruption

A system for the marketing, transporting, and selling of any good or service.

• transcontinental

  network

• distribution network

• regional network

• Northwest Passage

Unable to pay debts; without financial resources.

• bankrupt

• blacklist

• corrupt

• solvent

Having enough money to pay debts.

• subsidy

• globalized

• menial

• solvent

A share or part ownership in a business or corporation.

• subsidy

• stock

• supply

• allotment

In the case of railroads, land from the government.

• subsidy

• stock

• tariff

• revenue

The last stop or the end of the line for a railroad.

• finale

• plateau

• metropolitan

• terminus

President of the Great Northern Railroad he helped Seattle the the Northwest grow economically.

• Henry Villard

• James J. Hill

• Frederick Weyerhaeuser

• Isaac Stevens