What factors led to the Spanish Flu having a significant impact on society in the United States?

Explanation:

The Spanish flu is a deadly influenza virus disease that ravages the world in 1918, it is also called 1918 flu pandemic, it was said to have infected more than 500 million and killing over 50 million people. The virus is transmitted from one person to another person through airborne respiratory secretions.

Factors that led to the Spanish Flu having a significant impact on society in the United States includes:

Impact on productivity:

The spanish flu killed over 500,000 people of the United States in 1918, this greatly affected the productivity output leading shortage of foods production in circulation.

Social and economic factors:

The Social and economic sector was also greatly affected by the 1918 pandemic, cases where most people lost their jobs which leads to major unemployment thereby resulting in low income rate, schools were closed down during the period, which greatly affected the smooth running of education as at that time, the countries gross domestic product was at a low due to the shut down of most sectors of the economy as at that period, and hospital where filled up with low medical personnel and shortage of drugs to cater for people having various health challenges.

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after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.