Federalism
- Created by: Chloe Budd
- Created on: 29-05-14 15:21
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- The Federal State Relationship
- Westward expansion
- Settlement in the US spread from just the Atlantic coast
- Population growth
- Population was just under 4 million when federalism was conceived but today it has around 300 million.
- Industrialisation
- This brought the need for government regulation and the forming of federal departments
- Improved communication
- Radio and television brought about a national identity and strengthened federal government
- The Great Depression
- The states looked to federal government to cure their ills. The New Deal strengthened the federal government
- Foreign policy
- Federal US government became a world super power after the second world war
- Supreme Court decisions
- Constitutional amendments
- Westward expansion
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