Why was the government so eager to promote the growth of railroads?

Why was there a crisis in the savings and loan industry? how much money was lost and who paid for it?

Which concept is plato expressing in the excerpt below? when men have both done and suffered tyranny, and have had experience of both . . they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither. . —plato, the republic: book ii

The passage of alien and sedition acts led directly to what?