The answer to your question is c
The 1930’s is the time where Great Depression took place. In
that time, stock market crashed, unemployment went to the top, banks raced to liquidate
loans to cough up cash to sustain bank runs, and many banks closed. It resulted
to economic hardship to people in rural and city areas, most especially among
agricultural and factory workers. Huge numbers of people lost their jobs, while
those who still have jobs face very uncertain future. The Communist Party USA have
attractive platforms like more power for workers and for the common man. Therefore,
membership of the Communist Party USA swelled to about 55,000 in the 1930s.
<u>How did the Union's victory strengthen the federal government</u>? The war demonstrated that the federal government would not tolerate states acting on their own (by making the Union more powerful than the other states). A stronger central government is more effective (the Union's victory), and the federal government owned the south for years after that to help rebuild from the civil war (giving them more power over the south). It also freed millions of African-Americans.
<em>States rights were largely made irrelevant, and the federal government took on powers forbidden by the Constitution.</em>
South Carolina is the state where the secession crisis started.
