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AP U.S. History 2.5 Period 7: 1890-1945. The "capacity of industry" that President Truman refers to coincided with and was enabled by what demographic shift?

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[ musical flourish ]

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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by a demographic shift,

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the button on your keyboard that really shakes things up.

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Yeah, like that. All right.

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Well, take a look at this excerpt.

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[ mumbles ]

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[ mumbling continues ]

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And the question:

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The "capacity of industry" that President Truman refers to

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coincided with and was enabled by

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what demographic shift?

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And here are your potential answers.

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[ mumbles ]

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All right, well, first up. What exactly does

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"capacity of industry" mean?

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Well the excerpt says

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"and hardly less marvelous has been the capacity of industry

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to design and of labor to operate."

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So Truman is talking about some increase

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or expansion that allowed big business to grow,

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well, bigger.

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Have you ever seen The Biggest Loser? Yeah, like that.

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We also know that this expansion was a result of

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a demographic shift, which basically means

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a change in the make-up of the population.

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No, not switching from L'Oreal to Clinique.

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Although, that's a move that's pulled religious debate.

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We won't get into it. The other kind of make-up.

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Like an increase in young people or a specific

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ethnic group.

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So let's see which answer can clue us in to what was going on back then.

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Was the capacity of industry enabled by the demographic shift

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of A - growth in the rural population

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to meet agricultural demand?

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Hmm. Well, actually, with most jobs now in the cities,

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the U.S. as a whole shifted toward urbanization,

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like factories and stuff like that. So country life -

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farming - was headed out to pasture.

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That knocks out A.

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Could this boom in business have happened because of B -

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emigration from the United States to find jobs?

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Hmm. "Emigration" with an "E" means

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that you're leaving the country.

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And this period featured an increase in

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"immigration" with an "I," especially in the wake of World War II.

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So, guess that I before E rule applies here, as well. Hehe.

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Cross out B.

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Did the increase in production coincide with C -

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a "baby boom" that swelled overall population?

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Like everyone was having 3.4 kids,

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instead of the 1.5 we do today.

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Truman made this speech the day we dropped the bomb,

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so many of the nation's men were still overseas.

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When they came back, though, you better believe they saw

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a whole different kind of action. [ clicks tongue ]

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Giggity. So it's not C, either.

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Which means that the capacity of industry

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coincided with and was enabled by D -

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a massive wave of African American migration out of the South.

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That is, in the pre-World War II South,

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African Americans faced intense discrimination

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when seeking employment. Remember Jim Crow laws

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and sharecropping and all that? Stayed with 'em.

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But when the U.S. went to war, the economy picked up steam

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and jobs became available across the whole country.

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So five million African Americans migrated North

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and West for jobs,

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referred to as the Second Great Migration.

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And by the end of the war, 80 percent of African Americans

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lived in cities, a great proportion than

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any other ethnic group. So D is the correct answer.

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The city might've been less picturesque

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than the countryside, but it was definitely a better change of scenery for, uh,

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everyone involved.

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[ boing ]

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