The factory would slow production because there would not be many buyers if the price is too high
I think this highly subjective as most historians can’t agree on what he was trying to say and why. But my interpretation was that he used the term “iron curtain” because iron is viewed as strong and impenetrable. Remember, the Soviet gov controlled their people. The news they got, the tv they watched, the flowing of information in and out of the country. Nothing from the outside was getting in unless the gov approved it. Also in the flip side, the gov wanted to keep its people in the country and they could not escape easily. This is why the Brandenburg Gate, The Berlin Wall and yes the physical Iron Curtain were constructed.
Urban areas can include town and cities while rural areas include villages and hamlets
The social forces that reshaped the United States in its first half century were profound. Western expansion, growing racial conflict, unprecedented economic changes linked to the early Industrial Revolution, and the development of a stronger American Protestantism in the Second Great Awakening all overlapped with one another in ways that were both complementary and contradictory. Furthermore, these changes all had a direct impact on American political culture that attempted to make sense of how these varied impulses had transformed the country. The changing character of American politics can be divided into two time periods separated by the War of 1812. In the early republic that preceded the war, "REPUBLICANISM" had been the guiding political value. Although an unquestioned assault on the aristocratic ideal of the colonial era, republicanism also included a deep fear of the threat to public order posed by the decline of traditional values of hierarchy and inequality
