The correct answer is D) A baby boom that increased the US population.
After World War II ended, many American soldiers returned home to their wives. During this peacetime economy when soldiers were helped financially thanks to the GI Bill, many of them looked to start families. This is what resulted in the baby boom. The baby boom generation is considered anyone born between 1946-164. In the 1950's alone, American couples added more than 50 million babies to America's population.
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The correct answer is A) building a transcontinental railroad.
Renewed sectional conflict in 1854 was triggered by the question of "building a transcontinental railroad."
After teh Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the farmers from the Northern states such as asked the federal government to get access to the territories of the west such as Missouri and Iowa to settle the land and make it work and profitable. That is when the railroad companies supported the idea of the expansion to the west.
The Transcontinental Railroad was an innovative project that would join the East Coast of the United States with the Pacific Coast. The companies Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific were selected by the federal government to connect the country after the passage of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.
Based on what you've enumerated about the two choices, <span>Bramante and Pontormo. You should choose Pontormo since he was an architect and the question states "Which <em>architect</em> employed the mannerism technique". Therefore, the answer should be an architect whose works reflect the technique of mannerism. </span>
The current state of relations between the communists and nationalists in china is relatively calm and good given the way it has been in the past, but large divisions are still present.