Answer:
C. The railroad was remarkably well built, with some sections remaining in use for the next seventy-five years.
Explanation:
During the construction of the transcontinental railroad between 1863 and 1869, the following occured;
- Two companies, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, won the contracts to build the railroad.
- One company built east from California, one company built west from Nebraska until the railroad met at Promontory, Utah.
- The federal government subsidized the project with generous land grants and millions of dollars in public loans to the railroad companies.
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The Industrial Revolution involved several economic changes. Among these changes we can point to the rise of capital as a financial foundation to the detriment of land value, the use of both types of capital: long and short term and the complexification of the monetary and economic system, due to the demands of a market society.
The letter B) is the only one that was not a direct consequence of the Industrial Revolution.
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Answer:
Ben Franklin believed a republic needed virtuous citizens.
Explanation:
Benjamin Franklin was an American politician and scientist born in Boston in 1706, being considered one of the Founding Fathers of the nation and the main promoter of the Enlightenment in the American territory. He was a fervent believer in the concept of democracy and in the ability of peoples to govern themselves, through the election of representatives.
Through his political activism, for which he did not access to great positions in the federal government, but to positions of political and social leadership, he opposed authoritarianism and promoted education and innovation in American society, guided by his conviction that the more educated a society was, the better the decisions it would make to govern its destinies.
One huge problem in Russian Empire was peasant question: as a result of significant expansion of the borders a small number of people owned large territories. Even after abolition of serfdom peasants didn’t had enough land to feed themselves. But how can you redistribute land, take it away from the strong and give to the weak when land owners would clearly oppose you? Same problem was encountered many times along the history. For example, in Roman Republic after their expansion during Punic wars (optimates vs populares) - that resulted in Jules Ceasar overthrowing the Senate.
So, royal powers couldn’t solve that problem. During crisis caused by WWI, they were removed from power (that coup itself is quite complex event, there were several acting forces). Liberals who came into power after february revolution also were unable to solve peasant question and proved themselves incompetent. Exactly that 1917 year during summer numbers of Bolshevik Party significantly increased. They tried to perform coup in july (unsuccessfull) and achieved their goal in october.
Then after civil war Bolsheviks finally solved peasant problem through collectivisation with big blood and famine.
I wish that Nicholas II was more competent ruler and could prevent all these events in advance.
