The antebellum transportation revolution
a. was driven by a few firms that gained monopoly control of the major transportation routes.
b. increased the prices of many consumer goods.
c. discouraged urban growth.
d. caused political and economic tension between the East and the West.
e. None of the above.
Question 2
In the year after the stock market crash of 1929, stock prices on average ___.
a. were lower than they had been in decades.
b. were lower than in 1929 but higher than in the mid-1920s.
c. rebounded to a level higher than in 1929.
d. cannot be reliably calculated because no buyers could be found for many stocks, and hence no prices were reported.