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In 1992, presidential candidate H. Ross Perot said that signing the NAFTA agreement would produce a "giant sucking sound" in the United States. He meant that NAFTA would make jobs in the United States go to Mexico, where laboral costs were lower, thus producing unemployment and poverty in the United States. In view of the events, 17 years later we can affirm that the fears of H. Ross Perot were never confirmed.
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As the United States' industrial economy grew in the late 1800s, conflict between workers and factory owners became increasingly frequent and sometimes led to violence. The Homestead Strike occurred at the Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Steel Works in 1892.In the late stages of the Industrial Revolution, workers began to organize into unions in order to fight for better and safer working conditions. The government also became involved. New regulations were imposed to shorten the work week and to make factories safer.
Explanation:
The correct options are A, B & E.
Option A. The lost generation’s writings (literature) reflected cultural attitudes during the 1920s in the way that it referred to the group of musicians, writers, and intellectuals that appeared in those years.
Option B. Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory influenced surrealist artist to express their human nature with books like “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” “and Interpretation of Dreams”, both written in 1920.
Option E. Jazz music reflects cultural attitudes during the 1920s thanks to the politics, technological (radio) and economic (consumerism) developments that made the Jazz music’s popularity higher because the 1920s were an economic success in the US which lead to increase the consumer culture.
The darker side of Populism and Progressiveness
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The Ku Klux Klan popularly known as the KKK emerged during the 1920’s. The KKK was a secret society which then grew up to a big driving force reversing the federal government’s Reconstruction. They all were whites of middle class who were racists.
They were terrorizing the Afro-Americans, Republicans by murdering them and causing destruction to their properties. They brain washed the fellow white Americans to believe that the KKK was doing the best by conducting pageants and social gatherings. Hence it gained its utmost popularity drawing many people towards them.
Manifest Destiny, or the belief that it was American's God-Given-Right/ responsibility to expand the United States boarders from the Atlantic to the Pacific. People moved west because there was rich land for farming, opportunities for business or self advancement.
