... so they could not compete with American business. The presidents actually let people grow trusts so people could have whole responsibility over one sector of business such as oil or coal. Woodrow Wilson had fought against this before but the republicans thought it brought prosperity America's economy had not suffered from World War One; in fact it had been strengthened by trading arms and lending money to the allies. America also sold many foodstuffs. America itself kept itself cut off from thr worlds affairs at the moment, including the war and trading until the world war started. Then it also took over Germany's chemical industries that Germany had to give up. America made an immense amount of money at this point. For the first time items like cars and refrigerators were available and affordable to the middles classes and secondary industries such as advertising became very profitable. There was a ...

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