World War II was a chief funder in great changes in the
economy of Massachusetts. After the war, the United States was engrossed on the
military and relation to business, which alters the Massachusetts from a
factory-based economy to one that is based on amenities and technologies. The
United States built conveniences that may defend the workers. Another is that
the government conventions, private savings, and research facilities which
eventually produced a contemporary commerce; this led to the decrease of idleness.
In addition, the suburbanization and urban deterioration which exposed the modification
between social groups that may lead to a restitution of ethnic rigidity. The problems that emerged during those times
includes declining population, middle-class fight, departure of industry,
rising taxes, low property values, and competition among ethnic groups.
Immigration Reform and Control Act or better known as the
IRCA was passed in order to amend, reform, and revise the Immigration and
Nationality Act which barred immigration into the United States. This Act was
also to control illegal immigration into the United States.
