I agree because people will ALWAYS do marijuana or cigarettes or any kind of drugs and they will always have a reason for it. Making it legal or illegal really won't stop the people that are already doing it. The fact that it is already illegal right now doesn't stop anybody. Prohibition doesn't matter in this case.

I think that prohibition can be good and bad. When acochol and marijuana are prohibited i think that young people want to do it more because they want to take more risks, and i think that they know that they won't get in any trouble since barely any people get caught for anything because people are delusional. But I think that if alcohol and marijuana were legal then more people would do it and it would be more dangerous because people do stupid stuff when you are drunk or high. Such as, driving drunk, or pretty much doing anything and not being able to remember it the next day because it messes up your brain so much. Overall, i think that it should continue to be prohibited because it's good the way it is and sometimes change is worse than you think. Making it legal would cause more problems.

I agree with you because technology has become so advanced lately and in the future i think that we will barely even need workers and humans even. In the future technology will take over more than even whats going on right now. Everything is different now and i don't think it's necessarily for the better.

I wish that more people were for Walker because he is actually doing a lot for our state right no matter what other people say. And a lot of people are against him right now because they are fearful of losing certain benefits and actually having to compromise and deal with change. DON'T RECALL WALKER!

I agree with you, it resolved a lot of conflict and dispute and then after it was done we could be free and in peace like you mentioned.

I disagree with you because we still actually do have child labor going on in our country, their are several factories that use children so that adults don't have to suffer. Countries like china and india. And actually in the US as well.

LInk: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8.html

Exactly...........they could've lied and made it up so that it would hide what they actually did. more sick people was a good cover up.

During the progressive era it was very beneficial to us because it protected and regulated a lot of things that were necessary.

Me too, child labor is ridiculous and definitley not needed. They are forced to work in harsh and critical conditions that aren't only dangerous, but life threatening.

Was the Spanish American War beneficial and needed for the United States to maybe become something better?

I agree with you because the movie was very violent and brutal and it was fought without a purpose. They didn't know why they were fighting either. I felt like they just wanted to get revenge and that was the only reason too. And i definitley agree that that is not a good enough reason to run around killing people.

I disagree with you, i feel that the Spanish American War was needed and helped resolve a lot of things. They needed to fight for what they wanted and other countries felt the same, so they decided into war.

I agree with you because I found a list of his quotes too and saw that he mentioned that. A list of famous quotes of his I found here: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/theodore_roosevelt.html

I disagree with you because there is no way that racism will ever end, and the fact that Barack Obama became president didn't help anything. People hated him in the beginning and they will continue to hate him. Some may hate him because he is black. But it doesn't matter what color skin he was, it didn't help anything.

I agree with you Brady because this obviously was a really bad time for everyone that might have been unemployed or didn't have a "good enough" job. The working conditions then because ridiculously awful and it didn't change for a while.

I definitley agree with you, i believe that racism actually hasn't improved, because there are still some very ignorant people that are stubborn and act ridiculous. It's disgusting how judgemental people are now actually, it's makes us look really bad. And of course we shouldn't want that, US needs a good reputation. I found a few good quotes on racism:

LInk: http://thinkexist.com/quotations/racism/

I agree with you because this obviously was a big part of our history and it was very very important for the United States. And a big part of this was that it started to help protect and regulate laws on child labor and safety. The progressive era overall was very good and beneficial.

LinK: http://www.academicamerican.com/progressive/topics/progressive.html

I agree with you because that did have a big impact on how the United States became very imperialistic. We kind of took over and started to control more things and that helped us. THis did make us a bigger and greater nation.

I disagree because I believe that the United States was actually very imperialistic during the time of the progressive era.

LInk: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/index.cfm

I agree because it was a big step for the US, it helped us move forward by a lot and it did good for us by protecting us. The country did I guess get a lot safer after this but we had new jobs, and regulations.

I agree with this because the progressive era did lead us to becoming and independent and imperialistic country because we learned how to get back up again after failing once. We needed to learn how to help everyone and somehow compromise with everyone and give them what they need. They were growing bigger and bigger just like their economy.

LInk: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/index.cfm

Renaissance

This was considered a time of rebirth for everyone in this time period, this refers especially to the rebirth of learning that it began in Italy in the fourteenth century, spread to the north, including England, by the sixteenth century, and ended in the north in the mid-seventeenth century. During this period, there was an enormous renewal of interest in and study of classical antiquity. I found these facts on this website:

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/ren.html

Panama Canal

Some facts on the panama canal are that it splits the country of panama and unites the atlantic and pacific oceans. Also, the beginning of their travels on the canal would travel them to go over 6,000 miles. The french first started to try to build the canal but it ended up not working out. The canal is 48 miles long and it takes about 9 hours for a ship to pass through.

http://www.costaricapages.com/panama/blog/information-facts-and-a-brief-history-of-the-panama-canal-165

Child Labor

I am against child labor because I found a website that told me about some of the facts on it, one in six children are involved in child labor in developing countries. Worldwide, around 126 million children are working in hazardous conditions. My hypothesis is: is children working in their household as their parents slaves still considered child labor?

http://www.compassion.com/child-advocacy/find-your-voice/quick-facts/child-labor-quick-facts.htm

I agree with you because collective bargaining controls people and what they want, i don't think they should be able to take control over us just because they are the boss or the government, they can't control every little thing. And make up silly reasons for some things that don't make sense, that wouldn't be fair.

I agree with you because without collective bargaining we wouldn't have rights, and thats not fair at all. We need rights, they give us reasons to stick up for ourselves, so that we can fight and try harder to succeed and keep jobs.

I am strongly against the wall street protests, it is a waste of time and i think they are abusing their power of free speech, they can have a say in whats going on without being disruptive and disrespectful. I think that they have crossed the line and it's gotten out of hand. It needs to stop because some people are getting upset and it's causing a bigger debate than what is needed. They can control themselves and be more mature about some things.

I agree with you because the Unions do control our rights and they help us be able to support our families much better I think, and I believe that they control things so it's all pretty much even between social classes, one person can not make "too much" money, it kind of gets evened out.

I agree with you, I think that we definitley do need Unions so that it helps with the working environment.

So I am for the progressive era continuing, I want us to keep progressing so that we have jobs in the near future.

We need to keep progressing and moving forward so that we can continue having jobs and being employed, we need to be able to provide for families and ourselves, so this will keep benefiting us.

Pinkertons are bad and i am against them. They are violent and not a good way to resolve common issues.

Pinkertons are bad and i am against them. They are violent and not a good way to resolve common issues.

Yes i think that unions are still needed, and they will continue to decline in the upcoming years. I support unions.

Yes i think that unions are still needed, and they will continue to decline in the upcoming years. I support unions.

I am for the immagration reform because i don't want the jobs that we americans need, to be taken from us by new immigrants. We need these jobs because otherwise our families will not be able to be stable, also they will make money here and we will have to pay them instead of americans earning what they need.

As a wealthy business owner i disagree with you because it doesn't matter how many kids or how big of a family you have, you should be willing to work as long as you need to in order to provide for your family. I don't believe you that you NEVER spend time with your family, you have the whole weekend and night. so BOO HOO!

As a wealthy business owner i disagree with you because we should be able to pay you employees whatever we want, even if it is $1.00 a day. Yes, we will get rich but we have the right to because it is OUR business, i don't feel bad for the employees at all, at least they are getting some amount of money.

I am against minimum wage because i am a wealthy business owner and i think that we should be able to pay employees whatever we choose, i think that without minimum wage we could pay them lower than $7.25, and then save us more money.

I am against the 40-hour work week because i believe that as a wealthy business owner, employees should be working more than 8 hours a day for a 5 day week. Workers need to put in more labor hours because we as business owners need money for our business. And as laborers you will want to get a higher pay, and you will if you work more hours.