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What major problem did the government of Russia encounter after completing the railroad?
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The work was completed in 1905, but there was a problem. One section of the route cut across Manchuria, a Chinese province. The Russians wanted a railroad that did not cross China.
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Was a major problem for the US in the late 1970's?
Government programs discoruaging stagflation
The most serious problem facing the new government of the US was the?
huge debt from the Revolutionary War.
What was a major problem for the US in the late 1970s?
High gas and oil prices
Why did railroad companies begin hiring immigrants to build the transcontinental railroad during the civil war?
I doubt the civil war had much to do with it. Cheap labor is the short answer to your question. However, if you are willing to research this feat, you will find the Civil War is the beginning of a massive change in America from States Rights to a powerful Federal Government (the greatest fear of the Founding Fathers and the roots of the American Constitution). And the Transcontinental Railroad the beginnings of what we today all know as "the war on drugs." A political fiction with very nasty consequences for the American economy. To stay with the railroad. The Transcontinental Railroad is the beginning of today's War on Drugs and most illegal drug law in the United States that's choking our economy. It is the root source of our exploding prison population and any number of evils perpetrated upon the American people in the 21st Century by government? It is also the source of the term "pig tail" used for a woman's hair style today. The story begins when the British became addicted to Chinese tea to the degree that it created a trade deficit (imports over exports) which began to empty the British Treasury of silver. You see, the Chinese saw the British as barbarians and felt their products were inferior to Chinese products. They didn't really want to do business with the British and would only accept payment in silver for their exported tea. This made it a one-way trade relationship for the British government. Not good. After some decades of this the British hatched a plan to addict the Chinese to opium. A drug that had been used as a medicine for centuries in China, but had no real abuse issues and wasn't illegal to own or use. The British had plenty of opium from the Northern India territories, but the Chinese had existing trade routes across land for their supplies. Keep in mind that opium in those days didn't have the stigma it has today, it was a medicine and had been used as such for centuries to save lives. It also wasn't the big cash crop it is today, but I digress. The British sent ships from their ports in India to China loaded with cargo of 70-pound chests brimming full of raw opium. They had warehouses filled with it in the Chinese port cities. This alone didn't solve their problem because the Chinese were not new to opium and the British opium was certainly nothing special. However, the British introduced the Chinese to something they didn't have--the pipe. A technology brought back from the American Indians a century earlier. Smoking opium created a very different result for the British and their business venture became a success. The opium trade began to flow. Silver traveled from England to China to buy tea, traveled from China to India to purchase Middle East opium, and traveled from India to Britain as trade between India (a British colony) and England was robust. Problem solved. Many Chinese addicts lost everything to opium addiction after the introduction of the pipe and sold themselves into indentured servitude to pay debts. They were shipped as miners to South America, and workers on the Transcontinental Railroad in the U.S.. Due to their hair style resembling a pig's tail with the European slavers, this form of slavery was termed as the "Pig Trade", and the braided lock of hair on Chinese men termed a "pig tail". After the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad the thousands of hard-working Chinese were no longer wanted in the U.S. It was viewed that they were taking the White jobs during an economic depression that followed the railroad's completion. Congress passed a law that later became the Harrison Narcotics Act which made the raw form of smoked opium illegal, but left heroin and morphine legal as these derivatives were used by many American businesses in their patent-medicines. Only the Chinese smoked opium. Any Chinaman found guilty of smoking opium was deported. Problem solved.
Why did slavery cause fierce struggle between the South and the North?
Slavery was a states rights issue. The essential problem was if a state had the right to allow slavery when the federal government states it is illegal. We are still arguing the issue today. For Lincoln it was an issue of keeping the union together. Slavery wasn't so much the cause but a emotional and political response of where the power of the federal government stops and the state begins.
Who should a crew member inform if they encounter a problem whilst completing the DPSC?
shift manager
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I
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problem could be any difficulty an individual encounter in everyday life.
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yellow fever
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accuracy
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he got lost
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You Would Encounter A Feeling Of Enormous Weight And People Screaming
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What problem did linda brown encounter in topeka that eventually resulted in this case?
E.m.a
