<span> Military spending that began in 1940 to bolster the defense effort gave the nation’s economy the boost it needed, and millions of unemployed Americans returned to work to make the weapons of war needed to protect the United States
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The Twenty-sixth Amendment lowered to voting age to 18.
Many campaigners used "Old enough to fight, Old enough to Vote".
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The British soldiers were looking for weapons that the colonist had hidden there.