Question

to ban loans and embargo munitions would have been to give realistic expression to the isolation that the people and their president believed they enjoyed. but it would have closed off the wealth of unlimited orders, and americans did not wish to suffer for their neutrality. rather they hoped to make a good thing of it. with these two economic measures taken before the war was three months old, the fact, if not the illusion, of isolation was dead. -- \how we entered world war i,\ barbara tuchman based on the paragraph, what is the primary structure used by the author? cause and effect chronological compare and contrast main idea and details

Explanation:

The text presents a cause (not banning loans and embargoing munitions) and its effect (isolation being dead). It shows how the economic measures (cause) led to the outcome (effect) regarding the state of isolation.

Answer:

cause and effect