Answer:
Gandy dancer
Explanation:
Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as "section hands", who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines.
Answer: C
Explanation: Herbert Hoover was the President at the start of the Great Depression. He probably exacerbated the Depression as he did not believe there was a role for Government to play in giving aid to people.
Answer:
As a common man
Explanation:
During his campaign, Andrew Jackson was portrayed as a common man to prove that even common folk could get a position in the office; that the most important factor in one's career is not their lineage, but hard work. To gain the support of the voters, he portrayed himself as one of them. His election marked the beginning of the so-called Era of the Common Man, as before him politicians rose to their positions thanks to their family background, wealth, prestige, and education.
The Sick man of Europe<span> was a label given to a </span>European country<span> who were experiencing a time of difficulty or impoverishment. This term was first used in the mid-19th century to describe the </span>Ottoman Empire.
Building the Panama Canal
The French in the 1880s had attempted to build a canal across Panama, this catastrophic failure, resulted in the deaths of over 22,000 individuals who were working on the canal project due to malaria and yellow fever. The French eventually stopped their attempt on the project in 1889.
The disease takes on this name because of the horrendous attack on the body that may lead to liver failure and result in a yellowish tone to the skin. The disease is a hemorrhagic fever which assaults the body causing a lengthy list of symptoms including vomiting, nausea, body aches, headaches, coughing up blood and possible resulting in death.
Colonial William Gorgas first let the charge in Cuba and then later in Panama to create a sanitation campaign, which laid waste to the habitats and breeding grounds for the mosquito carrying of the disease and discouraged other forms of contamination, such as isolating those who were sick in quarantine. With his successful program, the United States government was eventually able to complete the canal project in a 10 year period, at the beginning of the 10th century.
