The answer is environment and geography
The Harlem Renaissance is also called the "Black Literary Renaissance", '"The New Negro Movement" and "The flowering of Negro literature". ... They wanted to celebrate the fact that their African culture had survived through the terrible years of slavery, and was being "reborn".
The correct answer is Herbert Hoover
He believed that the Great Depression would not become as severe as it did and implemented many dubious laws that actually made things even worse like introducing a new tariff system which was supposed to help but actually destroyed foreign trade for example. He was easily beaten by Roosevelt who promised the new deal.
The first true victims of American Imperialism were the Native Americans. As settlers slowly pushed West, native peoples were killed, forced out, or forced to assimilate into White American culture. Land would be set aside to "house" these many peoples, but even that would soon be settled. Native lands were slowly chipped away until they look as we see them. Many groups went from hundreds of thousands of miles of territory to a few hundred acres. Sometimes the land they were "given" wasn't even in their ancestral homeland, but thousands of miles away. Around the same time Americans would rob many Mexicans of the lands that they had settled and farmed for generations.
