Few events have a worst impact than the ww1.
Perhaps the greatest shortcoming of the Progressive movement was that it lacked any real political prowess, since most in Congress were the very corrupt people the movement itself was trying to overtake.
Republicans, farmers and other debtors is the right answer.
Republican Congress during the time of Civil War enacted high tariffs to defend the industries of the nation and to collect the fund for the Union ministry. The tariffs also generated other countries to counter by placing taxes of their own on the farm products of the United States. This resulted in the loose of share in the overseas market for the farmers.
<span>Why Western cultures tend to have better economies due to having more natural resources and spread their technologies and products to other cultures.
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