The Espionage and Sedition Acts(1917 and 1918)allowed a citizen to be fined or imprisoned for speaking out against the government or the war effort. Benefits of these actions include streamlining war production and removing obstacles to the war effort.
The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced.
The event that has been of greatest benefit to Latin America, was the battle that Simón Bolivar waged for the liberation of the peoples of the south, several countries of Latin America functioned as Spanish viceroyalties, and were ruled under Spanish law, their lands, wealth and benefits were used by foreigners, and although Simon Bolivar comes from Spanish parents, he decided to fight to liberate countries such as Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Panama, those battles were the most important in the history of South America, they served to open the doors to Independence of the south, autonomy and the recovery of identity.
<span> Although the skyrocketing urban populations strained public school systems, schools educated everyone from the children of urban professionals to the children of immigrant workers and the very poor. Some cities, including Boston, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, even provided free secondary schools.</span>
