The photograph shows the building of the transcontinental railroad in 1868. The construction of the railroad system in the American West was characterized by all of the following except:
A. Chinese immigrants and African Americans performing manual labor for low wages.
B. industrialists and the federal government cooperating to plan routes, allot land, and fund construction.
C. companies frequently using child labor to perform dangerous tasks such as demolition.
D. a small group of powerful corporations dominating construction with little government oversight.

the ss was the main organization responsible for the genocidal murder of around six million people of european ethnic minorities, essentially jews, in the holocaust. the members of all its branches committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the second world war (1939-1945). likewise, the ss were involved in commercial enterprises and exploited the inmates of the concentration camps as slave laborers.

the tortures and assassinations committed by the ss were the result of an ideology developed long before the armed conflict, this ideology was based on the racial supremacy of the germans over the rest.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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