Unity was brought mainly by the decades-long process of setting up and expanding the European Union in the aftermath of WW 2; also the disappearance of the Iron Curtain in 1989 was a major factor in uniting Europe.
Major disruptive factors were of course the two World Wars, and before 1989, the existence of a Communist-dominated Eastern Europe versus Western Europe.
1. It never lead to a single large conflict. Rather many smaller ones.
2. During the Cold War, the USA and USSR both funded army’s of smaller countries to fight for them. For instance the Korean and Veitnam Wars.
3. The Cold War came to a close when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
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Harran Derrick was a Rancher and he believed that the railroad was cheating him by always passing the point of destination for his goods and him having to pay extra money to get the goods to the final destination.
He also believed that the railroads were taking the land that he spent time to cultivate and using it for their construction purposes which was allowed due to the importance of the development of more rail roads and the rail system in general.
I don't know too much about the commerce commission but the sherman antitrust act was created due to bad trusts abusing their powers of having national power over a certain product and therefore holding a monopoly and a sort of dictatorship in a certain field. The sherman antitrust act was the first time the government officially intervened with private businesses and laborers. Pretty much the trusts overworked workers and skyrocketed prices and people complained. I'm blanking on the word for when "the government doesn't interfere with private businesses" but the government finally interfered with this act.
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Madison's worry about factions was really about political parties, as we understand them today.
Very quickly, Madison's fears were realized. The Federalists and the Democratic Republicans fought fiercely from the outset.
