The United States emerged as a great industrial power following World War I -- the most powerful nation in the world, in fact.
The growth of the United States as the world's leader in industry had been proceeding rapidly already prior to the Great War (which we know as World War I). By 1900, 38% of the world's wealth was held by the United States. By 1914, the US produced as much coal as Britain and Germany combined, as well as producing over 40% of the world's iron.
But before World War I, the United States tended to take an isolationist stance toward other nations. World War I advanced the US into superpower status as a nation that used its industrial might to involve itself in global affairs.
The Union blockade of the Southern ports was part of General Scott's Anaconda Plan.
The Anaconda plan involved choking off the Southern supply of goods via a port blockage in tandem with the Union Army coming up, around, and down the Mississippi River and working through the south systemically.
Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson used American power around the world during their presidencies.
Roosevelt
-The Roosevelt Corollary to keep European nations out of Latin America
-Started revolt in Panama to be able to create the canal
Wilson
-Invaded Veracruz, an important Mexican port
-Did not recognize a Mexican government that was against American ideals.
Answer:
As industrialization progressed in the North, Southerners were turning toward the past.
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