A difficulty that had to be overcome during the building of the Transcontinental railroad was Native raiding on work camps.
Andrew Jackson's presidency (who relied on the counsel of close friends ... presidents usually don't rely heavily on the advice of the formal cabinet. They are aware that department heads are often more responsive to the ... Congress loses leverage
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Maybe it has to do with the placing on the grid seeing section 16 is almost in the middle, meaning they had a prominent stand in education?