2. What led to the growth of the West AND
connected the East and West 2 words)?

Dust bowl

Explanation:

When farmers where looking for new land to start up crops because of a drought

when a country suffers, for example, a drought period, the market product is affected for a low offer, in this case, potatoes; the government has to tax to the households, which have to give more money for the potatoes which they consume, that situation make them consume substitute goods even through loans, it could increase the financial market movement and the inflationary phenomena, the business has to increase salaries in order to the employees could buy a more expensive food (potatoes) and in order to inflation tha business had to buy expensive supplies in the factor market, while the rest of the world have to gain more money to consume the same amount of potatoes.

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do