Gilded age is an age of prompt commercial prosperity which is a positive sign for a nation but with it came many negative aspects such as Corruption and oppression of poor by the rich.
Sherman’s antitrust law which prohibited the restriction of free trade was passed. It paved way for no trade to become a monopoly and it restored fair competition between businesses
Interstate commerce commission act aimed at establishing Union regulation of the railroads industry. This also aimed at prohibiting the transport department to follow monopolistic practices.
A greek city is known as a center for athletics. This is why it was so important. :)
Truman was most concerned with the newly communistic country of China joining the war effort. The US and United Nations could handle North Korea and were able to push back forces out of South Korea. China entering meant more men, more money, and more arms. It also could eventually lead to an escalation of warring powers coming into the war. China did enter the war which led to an armistice and agreement to keep Korea split at the 38th parallel.
Correct answer: The goal of the Peninsula campaign was to have the Union Army outflank the Confederate Army massed outside of Washington DC and to capture the Confederate city of Richmond, VA and then work back and wipe out the Confederate Army.
The main impact on the Americas from the Colombian Exchange was how many Indigenous people were killed. The exchange transferred European diseases, such as syphilis, smallpox, mumps, chicken pox, and the flu, to the Americas (which native people had not experienced). Many died as a result of a lack resistance or cures to these new diseases.
