EOC Spot Check Railroad & Captains of Industry

Choose the THREE items that CORRECTLY describe an aspect of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

• It crossed the Rocky Mountains.

• It crossed the Appalachian Mountains.

• Large numbers of Japanese immigrants were used in eastward construction.

• Large number of Irish immigrants were used in construction going westward.

• The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met at Promontory Point, Utah, completing the project.

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  Created a nationwide transportation network that helped unified the nation

• Allowed for the transportation of larger quantities of goods over longer distances

• Commerce increased between the states.

• Products of the manufacturing boom in the East were shipped to the West.
  
  What technological advance is being described?

• airplanes

• automobiles

• The Interstate Highway System

• The Transcontinental Railroad

In what way did the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 promote advancements in communication?

• It provided incentives for the construction of telegraph lines.

• It expanded the U.S. Postal Service into the western territories.

• It allowed the Pony Express to establish stations along the lines.

• It allowed for newspapers and other publications to reach a wider audience.

Which one of the following descriptions best describes "horizontal integration"?

• when the government controls the factors of production

• a company owns all the businesses that supply it with raw goods

• when the government lets businesses operate without restrictions

• a company acquires competing businesses and merges them into a single entity

"The problem of our age is the administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.... In former days there was little difference between the dwelling, dress, food, and environment of the chief and those of his retainers. . . . The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and the cottage of the laborer with us today measures the change which has come with civilization.
This change, however, is not to be deplored, but welcomed as highly beneficial. It is well, nay, essential for the progress of the race, that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest and best in literature and the arts, and for all the refinements of civilization, rather than that none should be so. Much better this great irregularity than universal squalor.... Neither master nor servant was as well situated then as to day. A relapse to old conditions would be disastrous to both-not the least so to him who serves-and would sweep away civilization with it...."

-Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889
Which statement BEST represents Andrew Carnegie's message?

• rich people are better than poor people

• rich people have a duty to help society

• poor people do know how bad their lives are

• poor people will get to heaven before rich people