Building through the Sierra Nevada Mountains was very difficult and dangerous. Temperatures were freezing during the winter and in one year alone there were 44 storms.There was the great danger of an avalanche for the men working through 18 feet of snow and camping on the tunnels beneath it. Creating tunnels through the mountains required blasting with nitroglycerin. Advancing at one foot of mountain at a time, a total of 11 tunnels was created.
To gain raw materials and to expand and get more land .
<span>Black Codes inspired Radical Republicans in Congress to draft new </span>civil right laws.
<span>At present (as of 2017 statistics), the national childhood obesity rate is 18.5 percent. The percentage of children who evidence obesity rises as children get older. The obesity rate for 12- to 19-year-olds (middle school through high school) is 20.6%.
Dietary habits have a large role in children's weight issues, and what is available at schools influences what children and teens will eat and drink. As a</span> January, 2011 article published in the J<em>ournal of Adolescent Health </em>asserted: "Schools are in a powerful position to influence children’s diets; therefore attention to foods sold in them is necessary in order to try to improve children’s diets." You could look for that article for more information. It's titled, "Foods Sold in School Vending Machines are Associated with Overall Student Dietary Intake," by Alisha J. Rovner<span>, </span>Tonja R. Nansel<span>, </span>Jing Wang<span>, and </span><span>Ronald J. Iannotti.</span>
<span> . . a <em>tenet</em> is . .<u><em> a main principle/belief, usually religious or philosophical</em></u></span>
. . thus . . main principle/belief of the New Jersey Plan was . . <u><em>to offer the idea of a single-house legislature in which each state would have an equal number of votes</em></u> . . giving smaller states an equivalent voice of power within the government compared to larger states
