They are financial aid and land grants from the government. Railroad executives made the argument that their companies should receive free public land on which to lay track because a rail network connecting East and West would bring important benefits to the entire nation.
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The Greek philosopher Socrates
Explanation:
was sentenced to die drinking hemlock for having expressed his ideas against the belief of the ancestral gods and corrupting the young Athenians
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The correct answer is <span>increase political and economic influence around the world
The United States government believed that they need to spread their ideas of liberty and democracy worldwide, wherever their ideas were not found and wherever there was tyranny or colonization. By getting others to be democratic republics, they would get support from them and increase their influence.</span>
The correct answer is:
The decision by Congress in 1873 to stop buying and minting silver.
The Coinage Act of 1873, signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant, was a general reform of the laws associated with the Mint of the United States.
The act was later criticized by advocates of bimetallism as the "Crime of '73" because it ended bimetallism in the United States, by setting the nation on the gold standard.
