they did because after ww1 there were more focused on the selves like woman suffrage or prohibition, people didn't care what was going on beyond there town let alone across the ocean. this was when America was involved in the banana wars in Latin America. the stock market crashed and no money was going out to foreign locations while the American people starved, during this time America built up there military.
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The setting affects the characters because they environment they live in shapes the way they act, look, and make decisions in the plot or story. The setting affects the story because the climax and rising and falling actions happen in the story, and it moves the story along further.
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I think it would be c for my thinking!