A joint-stock company is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.
The completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 encouraged settlement of the American west by proving easier travel and it took less time.
The French intellectual, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is best described as D. <span>an Enlightenment philosophe who believed in the goodness of human nature.</span>
Congress passed a serious of neutrality acts in the late 1930’s