They claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army (which had just executed a Japanese spy). The Chinese army did not fight back because it knew that the Japanese were just wanting an exvuse to invade Manchuria.
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"<span>B. regulating the stock market" and "C. paying pensions and benefits for the elderly, children, and the handicapped" are still tactics that are used today. </span>
Following the Civil War, the amount of currencies issued by state banks decreased due to <span>B. heavy taxes
I'm not 100% sure though!
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The annexation of Texas, a slave state, raised a lot of tension because it ruined the balance of power between the North free states and the South slave states.