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From the beginning, then, the building of the transcontinental railroad was set up in terms of a competition between the two companies. In the West, the Central Pacific would be dominated by the “Big Four”–<u>Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington </u>and<u> Mark Hopkins.</u>
He was elected in 1992, and was inaugurated in 1993. He was reelected in 1996.
In both forms, powerful countries dominated weaker ones for economic gains.
The forging of large, powerful nations into "power-blocs" vying with each other for control, coupled with the emergence of extremely lethal weapons of war (machine guns, bombs, aircraft and nuclear weapons)
