Answer:
When our leaders threaten journalists, they are threatening the First Amendment, along with our most basic rights. “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press,” said Jefferson, “and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Answer:
It enabled them to wage a modern war
Explanation:
The Northern states supplied the military with all the means necessary to wage a modern war, producing large quantities of ammunition and other supplies, and in doing so financing the war with its industrial capacity. The Midwest supplied the Union with soldiers, food, horses as well as financially. Military hospitals were located throughout the territory of the Union.
The national banking system was reformed during this period, and prosperity was stimulated by heavy spending by the federal government. Union countries have invested a great deal of money and effort in psychological and social support for soldiers, their wives, widows and orphans.
After WWI and during the Great Depression the US tried to be an Isolationist nation. They put out tariffs so people would buy US (forgetting that the rest of the world was still devastated by WWI (economies included)).
