The government has tried prohibiting marijuana for over 75 years now, and yet it is used by over 25 million people annually. If marijuana is legalized, the price of it would go way down, and people would not make a living off selling it, and would not want to sell it. There will be a lot more buyers, but not nearly enough sellers. Then the flow of marijuana would be stopped. Now, instead of the billions of dollars in the "underground" market, the government would be getting this money, helping the economy. There have also been studies that marijuana has no addiction or affects on the body, so why is it illegal?

Yes, I agree, but back then with the pay so little, if they didn't work they would most likely not have enough money for food or shelter.

Actually, almost no kids had what we think of a normal life now a days. They all needed to work in order to help pay for their food.

Is our Country still under Reconstruction? Of course the Civil War split us into Northern and Southern parts from, simply put, Slavery. The North wanted to abolish slavery, while the south did not, for their fields needed much help to harvest the crops. So from 1861, have we been able to cover up the split that divided our Nation; I don't think so.

A little of topic, but the Iranians acutally blew up the twin towers, so you know what Bush said? "Let's go invade Iraq."

Yes, there were already Native Americans living here. Leif Eriksson and other vikings were said to have found North America around 1000 A.D, and about 500 years before Columbus. Of course, Columbus was the first to discover and spread the news of North America, which is why we recognize his name more than others. - http://shadesbreath.hubpages.com/hub/Was-Christopher-Columbus-Really-the-First-to-Discover-America_1

The trench conditions were terrible. With a very clausterphobic feel to it, it stunk of rotten feet, or injured soldiers. Disease spread throughout the trench, and even if you survived the War, you most likely would get a case of "shell-shock", or a terrible combat stress reaction, which caused the soldiers terrible mind conditions. - http://jimmythejock.hubpages.com/hub/World-War-1-Trench-Living

During World War 1, an estimated around 17 million people died, give or take a few million. This is because a lot of bodies were covered in masses of ground, or never found from explosions. The warefare itself was very brutal, with each side in a trench, and the "No Man's Land" between them, composed usually of potholes from explosions and mud or dirt. The typical day would be firing lots of Mortar attacks and waiting for it to get quite, then have your infantry charge with a counter-attack. If you tried and turned around, you would get shot by your own country, so it was advance and die, or go back and die.

There were many ways in order to get to Oregon during the 1800's, but it wasn't easy, or cheap for the matter. One could simply get a wagon pulled by oxen, with family treasures, food, and sometimes themselves.This allowed for the most capacity of all of your items, but then you also have to feed your oxen. Rivers, were also a huge problem for the wagons; and sometimes they had to take a ferry to cross. One could also travel on horseback, which was a much faster way, and cheaper, but allowed for very few items. The last way was taking a steam-boat around the US. This was very expensive, and few had the money to do this, but I feel this would have been the safest and fastest way to get to Oregon. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail

The jungle gave horrible work conditions and diseases to the workers, that is why almost all immigrants were garunteed a job working there. There was also the problem of putting all of the dirt and mud in a canyon, which eventually caused many mud-slides. - http://www.eclipse.co.uk/~sl5763/panama.htm

The United States at the time, was the only Country with the correct and useful equipment to build the Panama Canal. Ferdinand de Lesseps, who built the Suez Canal, actually had the design of the lock system of the Panama Canal, which allowed the boats to get across the canal while going either up or down the twenty feet or so drop from ocean to ocean.

They also worked very long hours, with little or no breaks, while getting paid also very little. Unfortunatley, many children had to work in order to help contribute to the family's food and/or shelter.

Nationalism: Pride in one's Country.

Militarism: The building up of one's military powers in preparation of war.

Imperialism: Forcibly taking control of a smaller Country.

The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was the spark of World War 1, but many events led up to that, including: Imperialism, Nationalism, Militarism, Alliance, and Yellow Journalism. A link to WW1 "Sparks"- http://library.bhbl.neric.org/msweb/WW1.html

I am leaning more toward the conservative side, although it is hard to go directly one way with such a controversial topic, conservative vs. liberal. The conservatives are for: Traditional family values and the sanctity of marriage, small non-invasive government, and a strong national defense focused on protection and the fight against terrorism. I agree with all of these, but the right of protection of every living human, which I believe we shouldn't protect illegal immigrants.

We need to have collective bargaining for Wisconsin State employees. Without them, employees might not have any rights; this will also take away from their paychecks. With the taxes, we don't need any more money taking away from their paychecks.

Why would we need unions when the government already issued good working conditions laws? We have minimum wage laws, child labor laws, and safety laws. Your chances of getting fired after doing a good job at your job is slim. So, don't worry about getting fired. I think the government is doing a fine job with these laws, so there is no need for unions when they do the same exact thing.

I don't believe that we still need unions. With all of the laws we have now, minumum wage, child laws, and saftey laws, there is no need for the unions to negotiate the working conditions when we already have good ones. The government is doing a good job of creating good working conditions for the workers.

Without the Pinkertons, you workers would be able to not work when ever you want. The police won't take in affect to make you workers work again. If this is the only way to get my workers to work, then it must come into affect; and every worker who protests, I lose money.

Without Pinkertons, the employees could pratically run the place. Whenever they don't feel like working, they don't have to. With the Pinkertons, they will help my business run effectivly, and there will be no more strikers. The workers would not have to worry about them, as long as they go to work, so their is no need for worry.

It's only dangerous if we don't teach them how to use the equipment, which we do. They will help support your family, and maybe a bit extra. If anything, they can work less than adults.

Your children should be working for our business. They will help you provide for your own family, and without them, might just not make it. If you have many children, you could also get items that not only help you survive, but entertain. Most kids like to make money anyways, what child wouln't?

You workers were just complaining you had to much hours, and that you were for the 40 hour a week law. The immigrants would be payed much less also, for you are more likely to know more about the job that you already have. So you probably wouldn't loose your job, just get less hours, as you workers wanted.

I would want all the immigrants we could get to come to America. They will work for cheap, and most like smarter, and stronger, than the children we have working here. If we have a lot of people working at once, then people wouldn't have to work as long as they used to, so it's a win win.