<span>The Sputnik 1 was the first man made artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union to orbit the earth. Sputnik 1 was a </span><span>polished metal orb, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.</span>The launch by the Soviet Union triggered the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The large Russian population in the 19th century remained primarily rural, not moving to cities. Most of the rural population were former serfs who continued to work at agriculture in old world ways.
Between 1850 and 1900, Russia's population doubled but remained mainly rural. And that rural population operated mostly in small, peasant farm fashion. There wasn't the same acceleration toward urbanization seen in nations that were industrializing more rapidly. Russia's autocratic government under the tsars was also not ready for the sort of progress needed for industrialization.
Kennan thought if he provided aid to countries that were suffering economically and might soon have to go into the soviet union, he could build them up and therefore they could stand up against communism.
Finally, and most controversially, a Fugitive Slave<span> Law</span>was<span> passed, requiring northerners to return runaway</span>slaves<span> to their owners under penalty of law. The</span>Compromise of 1850<span> overturned the Missouri</span>Compromise<span> and left the overall issue of </span>slavery unsettled<span>.</span>
