They passed the Espionage and Sedition Acts which allowed the government to arrest and fine anyone speaking out against the war.
Roosevelt's New Deal programs worked to aid the rural poor, as well as restore soil quality and establish better farming practices.
The Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration were agencies created to help poor people in rural areas.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Soil Erosion Service (later known as the Soil Conservation Service), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were involved in improving land conditions. Working in conjunction with the National Forestry Service, the CCC and WPA participated in planting millions of trees to act as windbreaks, to prevent the kind of blowing erosion of soil that occurred in the Dust Bowl.
After WW1 it took a while for life to go back to normal. Everyone around this time were creating new ideas and which lead to mass production. The demand for the multitude of new product was higher then ever and they thought that they were getting somewhere. However the prosperity<span> of the 20s was not universal, many places were still dependent on farming. But everything went downhill and it led to the great depression </span>
Because you could just sit in your trench and wait for the opponent to attack, at which point you could shoot him, throw explosive devices, or even use chemical weapons that weren't banned then.
<span>•nationalism- it can cause intense competition among nations w/ each seeking to over power the other.
•imperialism- a stronger nation take control or dominates a weaker country of territory.
•militarism- having a large & strong standing army made citizens feel patriotic</span>
