Prohibition does not work. When people want to do something, they will do it. In the past people have got into arguments, fights, and wars about plenty of things people wanted to end. If we put one on alcohol and marijuana, honestly people would not care. Wether they were breaking a lwa or not listening to others, they will do it anyways. People want to learn by mistakes these days. If they have to learn the hard way, most will. They wont see a bad side of it until they get hit by it emotionally. It would never work.

Trains helped in trading as well. we upgraded from horses to trains. horses are cheaper, but they cant go as far with goods or as fast. they also can die along the way. trains were made sure they were built right and could carry tons. including people

i agree, why would you take time out to go expand when you could move but not 1,000 miles away from everything. That just sounded stupid to me. You would die for nothing.

yes, think about fighting for land now and trying to buy land back. this would suck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_vs._fuel

Moving west did help us spread out more and be able to find our land and start something over. I think the most important thing in this is we found it so that the land is ours. We didn't have to worry about anyone else taking our land from us. The U.S. is perfectly proportioned

I do think this helped america see that we needed to step up our ammunition so we can defend ourselves a lot more. it is very impressive of how good we keep allies out of our country though i modern days so it proves that this did help us.

i agree in my eyes, we did not need to start an argument with them for nothing. it was prolly the most stupidest war ever

I agree i dont think this really changed anythin in the u.s. besides showed we had strength, but we already had strength.

http://www.jcs-group.com/military/war1898.html

I def agree with this, and this also tells us that we can make it through the worst and we are strong enough to stand for what be believe.

i disagree because if we went early, we would not be as prepared as we were later on for the war.

If we would have been honest, we would have had a war earlier and not would have had time to plan out our army. if they found out right away they would declare war.

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/lieofthecentury.php

i definatly agree. there were too many lives taken for granted. i mean look at us now. We need more jobs, and then we had kids working too. Maybe if we didnt work too hard then and kept the life style the way it was meant to be we wouldnt be under so much pressure right now.

Slave trade was so unfair. I am glad we stopped slavery inthe u.s. i think the war between the U.S was stupid. If we needed workers, we could have hired our own. there were plenty of others that could have done the job without being forced and taking others from their home land. this was so cruel and unfair.

i agree to disagree, because there was a lot of problems during this journey also. it helped us, but we could ave also slowly expanded.

today, there is no real relationship between us and iran. its proven that since they disagree with our plans and are in sides more with iraq that there is nothing to even be said between us both.

With war came along allies. If we didn't have allies some of our resources and protection would be taken away.

i agree, we were way too harsh on the kids. I think having arguments and protests helped a lot with this issue. It just was not fair to the kids they needed education.

In current events, we talked about Wisconsin and how it went down on drinking and down on smoking cigarettes and up on pot. I think that we need to slow down all of it not just some of it. Wisconsin is still worst for binge drinking so even though it dropped, we really need to stop more of it.

I think that if we have not even had westward migration, it would not have been a big deal. Eventually, we would have spread out by ourselves and not had to struggle with the harsh conditions because we would slowly progress our way over to the west side.

The panama canal led a huge door to saving money and making trading easier. Im not sure if it was worth all the lives lost or not, but in the end i think it helped a lot with the u.s. and earning money.

To me, the biggest push in the U.S was the progressive movement because it really showed us that we need to step up all of our laws, safety, and jobs. there was so much improvement and less people were sick or hurt or treated unequal.

I agree here. The revolutionary war was very successful for the united states and it proves that our army has become a lot stronger than we were in the beginning which helps alot. with everything we have been through since.

I would not mind having immigrants to work in my shop just as long at they will work hard and earn the company more money.

i dissagree as an owner of a company, i do not want your irresponsible kid to use my machinery and get hurt or ruin it plus kids do not deserve money because they dont work as hard as they should.