The United States emerged from World War II relatively unscathed. This made them the sole player pretty much in global markets. People had also bought a lot of war bonds, and invested in the country and in the war.Ê
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They had a big enough Navy to blockade the Southern coast, to prevent them exporting their plentiful cotton for war supplies.
the construction of railroads west of the Mississippi because railroads connected eastern markets to western farms.
The legacy of post-war economic discrimination contributed to the wealth gap between whites and non-whites that we see today.
An issue after the Emancipation Proclamation Slavery Taxation Agricultural economy, primarily from exporting cotton