Why was it important for women to enter the workforce during the war?
they were forced to abandon families to take jobs.
they filled the jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight.
they had to fight overseas in the army and navy.

the answer is the government.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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