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What inducements did the United States offer to the incorporators of the Union Pacific Railroad Company to build a transcontinental railroad ? 5. What did Representative Pruyn mean by the statement that " the Government in fact built ...
What inducements did the United States offer to the incorporators of the Union Pacific Railroad Company to build a transcontinental railroad ? 5. What did Representative Pruyn mean by the statement that " the Government in fact built ...
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providing assets much more valuable than those invested by private projectors , and it was possible to regard the builders either as enterprising capitalists whose object was to build and operate a transcontinental railroad and who ...
providing assets much more valuable than those invested by private projectors , and it was possible to regard the builders either as enterprising capitalists whose object was to build and operate a transcontinental railroad and who ...
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RAILROAD REGULATION SINCE 1887 It has been the purpose of this Problem to show how the railroads brought new conditions into the American economy , how these conditions produced abuses and harmful results , and how the American people ...
RAILROAD REGULATION SINCE 1887 It has been the purpose of this Problem to show how the railroads brought new conditions into the American economy , how these conditions produced abuses and harmful results , and how the American people ...
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Contents
I | 2 |
PHILOSOPHERS OF LAISSEZ FAIRE | 7 |
Attitudes during the Progressive Era | 13 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Select Problems in Historical Interpretation: Government and the American economy, 1870-present Volume 2 of Select Problems in Historical Interpretation, David Morris Potter |
| Authors | David Morris Potter, Thomas G. Manning |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Dec 2006 |
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