The development of a national railroad system was hampered by which of the following?
a. The absence of a national standard for track width
b. The public's fear concerning the safety of rail travel
c. The refusal of most financial institutions to grant loans for rail construction
d. The cost of both buying land and hiring the number of workers necessary to lay track over rough terrain
a
You might also like to view...
The Seventh Cavalry led the December 1890 attack on Indians at __________
A) Wounded Knee, South Dakota B) Apple Creek, Colorado C) Palo Duro Canyon, Texas D) Big Sandy, Wyoming
What two factors caused Phoenicia to create overseas colonies?
a. seafaring and slavery b. warfare and trade c. religion and agriculture d. trade and industry
The goal of the perpetrator of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was to avenge a. an American attempt to kill Osama bin Laden at a pharmaceutical plant. b. America's unquestioning support of Israel. c. the deaths of members of the Branch Davidian religious sect whom he believed had been deliberately killedby the FBI
d. American undermining of the government of Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
In his reforms to modernize Turkey on the western model, Atatürk established a constitutional monarchy
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false