Which of these actions would be encouraged under a free enterprise system but discouraged under a mercantilist system? a. importing cheap consumer goods
from foreign countries b. selling expensive luxury goods to foreign consumers c. encouraging workers to move from farms to big cities d. placing limits on the types of products sold in a country

The correct answer is A. Importing cheap consumer goods from foreign countries would be encouraged under a free enterprise system, since this system guarantees commercial freedom, without restrictions on the part of the State; but discouraged under a mercantilist system, since mercantilism consists of a series of measures that tend to the state regulation of the economy, the unification of the internal market, the increase of the own production and the imposition of tariffs to the foreign products.

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.

in the 1800s, locomotives powered by steam made transportation faster and cheaper. the resulting rapid growth of railroads led to the connection of the atlantic and pacific railroad in oklahoma city in 1897.

in the last years of the century, the improvement of steam-based engines the expansion and growth of railroads. this growth increased when the companies started to build and expand, such as the atlantic and pacific railroad, which connected new mexico with california, and missouri with oklahoma. many of these new networks were built in oklahoma, and these changes transportation henceforward.