The main reason why President Johnson was unable to stop radical Republicans from putting the reconstruction plan into action is because he simply lacked a congressional majority of backs for his plan.
The Great Depression was the worsteconomic crisis in U.S. history. From 1931 to 1940 unemployment was always in double digits. ... Those war jobs seemingly took care of the 17 million unemployed in 1939. Most historians have therefore cited the massive spending during wartime as the event that ended the Great Depression
Americans feared that other foreign powers would gain power if the United States did not get involved.
Why did late-1890s newspapers publish sensational stories about Cuba and the Spanish-American War? Newspapers used the stories to sell more papers. ... They blamed Spain for the explosion and called for the US to declare war.
