United States control of Puerto Rico’s government with Puerto Ricans
becoming U.S. citizens after 1917; the Philippines providing a naval
base to guard U.S. trade in Asia, which in turn provided some
improvement in Filipino schools, roads, and healthcare.
Answer: The treatment of Native Americans
Explanation:
A common practice was to pay ridicilously small wages to workers themselves and pay even less to children and women who were working at factories. Another thing that was done was to either import foreign workers who would have to work for even less, or to move production to companies overseas where they would set up a distribution and where workers themselves would also have to work for very small amounts of money. This increased their profit margins.
Answer:
Manufactured items from the eastern coast of the United States and Europe made up the bulk of the goods traveling to Mexico. Furs, wool fleeces and woven goods, silver and mules traveled from Mexico for trade in the United States. Millions of dollars in merchandise traveled this 900 mile international trade route.
