Answer this question… Which fact of life for African Americans in the 19th century limited the impact of the event described in the headline?
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growth of unity between ethnic populations
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulated commercial transportation between the states: railroads, trucking, shipping, air freight; basically it regulated anything that moved goods. It originally started with the growth and development of railroads during the 19th century. The railroads in general were owned by fabulously wealthy investors, since it took a vast amount of capital to lay tracks and purchase the expensive engines and cars, the "high technology" of their day. In return for vast investments, the railroads expected vast profits, and they engaged in all sorts of unsavory tactics that were unfair to their customers. The ICC was established in 1887 following a Supreme Court decision in favor of railroads that ONLY the U.S. government could regulate interstate commerce, another blow against State's Rights. The U.S. Constitution only says the following about interstate commerce, describing the power of Congress: "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes". Everything else that has come after is the result of legislation and court decisions.
growth of presidential power during periods of emergency
physical captial, human capital, natural capital, technological change
Government growth in the 1920s was less than in any subsequent decade and resulted in the Great Depression. The 1920s fall between two well-known eras of government growth: the Progressive era prior to World War I, and the New Deal of the 1930s. It was the New Deal's increase inGovernment power through regulation, such as the creation of the SEC, which saved capitalism and brought this nation from the brink of no return.