The presumption the answer is Referent power. it is one of the Five Bases of Social Power, as characterized by Bertram Raven and his partners in 1959. Referent power in the initiative is the capacity of a pioneer to develop the regard and deference of his devotees such that they wish to resemble him.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The factor that played in the United state enjoying economic prosperity during the roaring '20s was that the country did not incur in big amounts of debt during World War 1, as Europeans countries did. Indeed, the United States loaned big sums of money to Western European countries to support the war effort. That is why the United States could live a period of economic prospeity in those years called "the Roaring 1920s," a period in which people had money or could buy using credit all the things they needed or they liked.
1890s African Americans began working on subway Construction
The main cause is poverty and lack of education. They're very poor, so they can't afford school. If the children do go to school, they drop out very young to work and help earn money for the family. That's not the kind of cycle people can break out of easily.
Add to that the civil war from 1960 to 1996 where the military persecuted the native people, killing up to 200,000, and they've had a pretty rough time of it.