Chicago replaced eastern cities as the main buyer of farm products from the region. Paragraph 1 is marked with an arrow 正确答案:C 显示答案 进入答题 问题反馈收藏题目 译文 American Railroads [#paragraph1]In the United States, railroads spearheaded the second phase of the transportation revolution...
banking, mining, and transportation firms and participated in the construction of various internal improvements such as canals, turnpikes, and railroads.
By the Civil War (1861-1865), few thought of the railroad-linked Midwest as a frontier region or viewed its inhabitants as pioneers.As the nation's first big business, the railroads transformed the conduct of business. During the early 1830s, railroads, like canals, depended on financial aid...
such as canals, turnpikes(收费关卡), and railroads. The states encouraged internal improvements in two distinct ways: first, by actually establishing state companies to build such improvements; second, by providing part of the capital for mixed public-private companies setting out to make a profit...
Besides, larger numbers of migrants moved to the West in seearch of land and economic opportunity, frequently provoking competition and violent conflict. The building of transcontinental railroads, the discovery of mineral resources, and government policies promoted economic growth and created new ...
labor in the fields and work as track layers on the railroads9. Immigration officials used technicalities10 to halt the flow across the Rio Grande11 and even to reverse it; nearly a half million Mexicans were deported in the 1930s, including families with children born in the United States....
UNITED States. Interstate Commerce CommissionRAILROADSTRANSPORTATION industryINDUSTRIAL concentrationSTOCK exchangesLABOR productivityPurpose: The purpose of this study is to compare the competition and productivity of the US freight rail transportation industry for the past 41 years (19...
Before the mid 1860’s, the impact of the railroads in the United States was limited, in the sense that the tracks ended at this Missouri River, approximately the center of the country. At the point the trains turned their freight, mail, and passengers over to steamboats, wagons, and sta...
The rise of industrialisation was in reality much faster than Arrhenius and Ekholm expected. Society became urbanised and manufacturing continued apace in the early twentieth century as railroads ferried raw materials such as iron and steel to factories where machines now did much of the work. Inter...
1. The text is mainly about___.A the price of cigarettes B the rate of teen smoking C the effect of tobacco tax increase D the differences in tobacco tax rate 2. What does the author think is a surprise?A Teen smokers are price sensitive.B Some states still keep the tobacco tax ...