You can go Klondike only by the Yukon River, you can choose
upstream from its delta, downstream from its head, or from somewhere in the
middle through its tributaries. While it’s difficult to get to California;
forty-niners faced hardship and often death on the way. At first, most
Argonauts, as they were also known, travelled by sea. In the East Coast, they
sail around the tip of South America would take five to eight months and cover
some 33,000 kilometres and another way was to sail to the Atlantic side of the
Isthmus of Panama, take canoes and mules for a week through the jungle, and
then on the Pacific side, wait for a ship sailing for San Francisco. There was
also a way across Mexico it begins at Veracruz.
The differences in how the war affected each nation, with the US having less destruction and casualties compared to the Soviet Union is your best answer.
Another reason is the fact that they used two seperate types of government, and each tries to impose it's own kind on other countries in an effort to be able to be the "leader of the world".
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Approved July 2, 1890, The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. ... Several states had passed similar laws, but they were limited to intrastate businesses.