CH.12 Assessment

Who began the first modern research laboratory, resulting in many new inventions, including the battery and the motion picture?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Edwin Drake

• George Pullman

• Thomas Ava Edison

Supporters of laissez-faire generally favor

• free trade

• government protections

• high prices

• tariffs

The first of oil well was drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania by

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Edwin Drake

• Elisha Otis

• Thomas Alva Edison

One reason for the country's industrial success was its vast abundance of

• Natural resources

• gross national product

• technology

• enterprise

The government offered each railroad company building the Transcontinental Railroad _____________ along its right of way

• railroad stations

• natural resources

• land

• free housing

A shortage of workers in California forced the Central Pacific Railroad to hire about 10,000 workers from

• China

• Ireland

• Japan

• Mexico

To build their railroads, railroad companies raised most of the money they need from

• hauling freight to market

• private investors

• selling government land grants

• subsides from tax revenues

The two railroad corporations that built the transcontinental railroad were the

• Southern Railway and Great Northern

• Southern Railway and Union Pacific

• Union Pacific and Central Pacific

• Union Pacific and Great Northern

To make rail service more reliable, in 1883 the America Railway Association

• divided the country into standardized time zones

• drew latitude and longitude lines for the country

• set a maximum number of cars that a train could pull

• set standards for materials used in the construction of railroad lines

When a single company achieves control of an entire market, it is known as

• a corporation

• a monopoly

• an integration

• an oligarchy