Read the quote from President Wilson’s letter to the National Child Labor Committee. “As the labor situation created by the war
develops I am more interested than ever, if that were possible, in throwing all the safeguards possible around the labor of women and children.” The “labor situation” Wilson refers to most likely concerned him because:
Because Wilson was President during WWI. During this period, many men had to join the military to fight in Europe, leaving their work positions in the U. S. vacant. This gap in the workforce was often filled by women and children. This change in the nature of the workforce needed to be regulated, and this was a matter that concerned President Wilson.
The major dividing factor between the two first political parties, the federalist and the democratic republicans, was how "powerful" the central government should be over the states, with the former wanting more power and the latter wanting less.
The United States created the Marshall Plan (1947) as a program to "<span>(3) provide economic aid to war-damaged Europe" mostly so that another war would not develop. </span>
