Well because of the great depression many factories were just lying around not producing anything but when the us as attacked by japan almost immediately those factories were up and running to make war supplies and they needed workers so almost no unemployment in the us and everyone was making money.
The quote is essentially picking at how horrible imperialism is a society as it can control daily lives through fear. It is a government’s way of controlling their people through political and economic power.
He helped gain American independence and was one of the writers of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Also considered one of the great scientists of the 1700s, Franklin created many inventions that are still in use today
The Articles of Confederation created a one branch of government consisting of a national legislature called "the Congress," although it should be noted that this Congress was very different from what it is today.