The correct answer is A.
<em>The Northern Securities Company</em> was formed in the year 1901 in the state of New Jersey. It was the merging of holdings of the following railroad companies: Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
<em>This merger created a monopoly that monopolized the railway traffic between Chicago and the Northwest.</em>
President Roosevelt, fearing restraint of trade and competition, sued the company in 1902 under the Sherman Antitrust Act ( this acts regulated the competition among enterprises).
The government won the case and the company was dissolved. The three railroad companies started to operate individually again.
probably E, because it could lead to war, plus this goes more along the lines of world affairs.
President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 and sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an exploration to check out what the United States got.
Letters A and C. Let us understand why:
European maritime expansion has created new trade routes, connecting many parts of the world, but commercial interest was the main reason.
In the European markets, which flourished during the Late Middle Ages, the sale of spices and other Oriental goods provided very high profits to merchants. Silk fabrics, porcelains and a number of condiments, such as cloves, pepper, and cinnamon, used for food preservation, met a large number of buyers.
D. The Area had little water and arable land.
If we look at the the population in Australia , we can see that most of the population lives on the coast because the land is dry and little/no vegatation.
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