Company Towns in the Late 19th Century Quiz

railroad construction sites, lumber camps, turpentine camps, or coal mines

Churches, schools, libraries, and other amenities

Saloons or other places or services believed to be negative influences were prohibited

<p>The remoteness and lack of transportation prevented workers from leaving for other jobs or to buy from other, independent merchants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some cases, companies paid employees with a scrip that was only good at company stores.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The lack of transportation prevented workers from leaving for other jobs or buying from independent merchants, trapping them in the company towns and limiting their economic options.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some companies paid employees with scrip that was only valid at company stores, preventing them from spending money elsewhere. This lack of external competition led to exorbitant housing costs and groceries in company towns, trapping workers in a cycle of debt and dependence on the company.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Laborers in company towns were often housed in fenced-in or guarded areas, with the excuse that they were being 'protected' from unscrupulous traveling salesmen. In the South, free laborers and convict laborers were often housed together in the same spaces, leading to equally terrible mistreatment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Company towns led to exorbitant housing costs and groceries, large debts for the workers, limited economic options due to lack of transportation, and mistreatment of laborers, especially in the case of free and convict laborers being housed together.</p> Signup and view all the answers