The most important economic development in the mid-19th-century south was the cotton gin.
One thing you have to be clear about is which war. I'm taking it to be WWI.
There was a cash crunch after WWI. France was not any kind of a problem with the United States. It's not B.
I better get to the point. It has to do with the fact that the United States couldn't sell an abundance of manufactured goods. A has to do with that, but it wasn't exactly a decline in the manufacturing industry. It was that she couldn't sell what she had in inventory.
Inflation didn't become a problem in a post WWI environment. In fact, the problem was deflation and unemployment in the 30s, but that is a decade away from this question.
This is one of those questions that a guess is as good as an answer. Britain didn't import which is the same thing as a trade imbalance. I would pick E but I think that D is very possible. They are both worded the wrong way.There was a drop off in American Exports. And Farm prices cratered. Does that mean that Americans were buying more British goods. It is not D if America couldn't sell anything to Britain.
That makes E true. I'd pick E, but there's lots of reasons to pick almost anything else except B.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached we can say the following.
What does Fortas mean when he states "if we are not to . . . Teach youth to discount important principles of our government as mere platitudes"?
What judge Fortas meant was that American youngsters that are limited in their rights as students would be disappointed and are going to find it very hard to truly believe in the idea that the government has a true interest in them. Students would doubt the merits of the government.
We are talking about Abe Fortas (1910-1982), who considered that students could use armbands and that did not interfere with other youngsters because these bands did not threaten other students neither represent a risk. He thought that students just were exerting their right to express their opinion,
Answer: They didn't really have the resources and the equipment and they needed more time to decide if they were up to having their nation in danger.
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