Conflicts Between The North And The South
.... if they built more factories to process the cotton. The North bitterly opposed this idea. They felt that it was too risky to build more factories and lose a profit. The North would said that if they, the South, slowed down their cotton crop then there would be enough factories to process the cotton. The South disagreed of course, leading to a never-ending quarrel between the two sections. The two sections also had different economic leaders. The North had capitalists, people who invested money to make profits. The capitalists invested their money into factories and so forth. The South's economic leaders were the planters. Plant .....
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America's Involvement In World War Two
.... the senate by seventy-nine votes to two in 1935. On August 31, Roosevelt signed it into law. In 1936 the law was renewed, and in 1937 a “comprehensive and permanent” neutrality act was passed (Overy 259).
The desire to avoid “foreign entanglements” of all kinds had been an American foreign policy for more than a century. A very real “geographical Isolation” permitted the United States to “fill up the empty lands of North America free from the threat of foreign conflict”(Churchill 563).
Even if Roosevelt had wanted to do more in this European crisis (which he did not), there was a factor too often ignored .....
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