Not much really.
The government did not really govern the big business and they could basically do what they pleased. But as the journalists and writers and the workers started bringing all the bad things the big businesses were doing to the light of day the government started intervening just a little. A landmark law passed at the time would be the <span> Sherman Act that was against the trusts. </span>
Sectionalism refers to being loyal to a certain region in a country, but not to the country as a whole.
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during the cold war the united states and the soviet union became engaged in a nuclear arms race
Just reeeeeaad the sections
Mostly it was exhaustion, lack of supplies, new diseases (and old disease that became more common.) Also cold weather, bandits, and oxen dying on the trip.