I dont think that prohibition ever worked or ever will work. Limiting people to something they have easy access to such as alcohol or even drugs today, makes them want to more. People are always trying to break the law and always take it as far as they can until they get caught. During history, prohibtion never slowed anyone down. I believe that their should be laws against using drugs or drinking alcohol while operating vehicles because it impares your judgement and many other things. But can we really stop people from using marijuana today? Shouldnt we be more worried about the cops catching rapists or murderers and not trying to catch someone for smoking marijuana that isnt affecting other people. I also think that doing it publically should be illegal because it can affect others around you. Even though it isnt right and morally we know that we shouldnt hurt our bodies, we can't stop everyone from doing it and it is never going to be stopped so we need to worry about other more important crimes.

The twin towers was a spark on the war today just like the USS Maine in the Spanish American war. The only difference is that we had evidence that Iraq and the Al Quaida did it and the Spanish were never proven guilty for blowing up the Maine

They were all told that they were supposed to go to war to support their nation and werent really sure why they were there. This is probably one of the reasons that they lost because with soldiers not knowing what they were supposed to do, they werent going to know how to fight and what they were fighting for

This link shows other effects of the war including the fight over Cuba and Puerto Rico. That shows that the explosion wasnt the only thing that started the war

There are some signs of racism seen every day by name calling and the racist jokes that are being said. I believe that it begins with the parents of the children. The children learn from their parents and if they hear their parents talking about it they will bring it to school and spread it to others. The only way we can stop it is by getting the adults so grow up and not be racist

I agree that it is all the knew. They were taught that the were doing it for their families and I think that this made them feel more like adults and like they werent children anymore.

I think that even without it we would have began the war because we already had major tension before that. The Zimmerman Telegram did spark the war at the end but other things could have happened besides the telegram that could have possibly sparked it if the telegram was never sent

I believe that it can be a distraction sometimes but it definately allows you to research more and gain more information from other sites. I think that it depends on the people that are using it.

Yea this is true but why? why do you think that though? I think that they showed it by bringing the war into another country and by beginning the war in the first place. The yellow journalism began the war and the US could have stayed out of it but instead the went to fight Spain over something that may never have happened. The "explosion" of the USS Maine

This is true because the Canal shotened the trip extremely and let us use less gas which saved alot of money because of the high prices of oil.

This sounds right because they are trying to get oil from the middle east and by doing that they have to take out other countries. They want power all the time and the should come to agreements instead of always wiping others out. http://www.thedebate.org/thedebate/iraq.asp

I think Imperialism is a good thing because if you want to be a great country you need power. You can't be the best without the most power. And even though it caused wars, it was countries trying to become the best. Everyone wants to be the best at what they do and you have to be good or powerful to do it.

I agree with that because never revolting would have never made us a powerhouse. We needed to revolt and fight for our freedom

There would have still been a war because the newspapers would have found a way to make it happen. It happened to be the USS Maine that they brought up but they could have made anyone believe anything so even if they said the Spanish did it, a war would have began. http://www.pbs.org/crucible/frames/_journalism.html

I agree with this but it isnt all for the money. They also want to gain more control over countries to become the most dominant in the world since China is rising greatly. They want to make sure that we dont lose our 1 spot in the world

I dont agree with you aron because we would have had a much weaker military and wouldnt have been able to compete against the powerhouses like Germany. If Germany would have won the first one we wouldnt have been able to gain Independence back.

They had never thought that it was going to be that bad until it happened. People take advantage of laws until they are made and that's what business men did. They wanted money and they did whatever they could to get more of it. The laws werent going to be made earlier because nothing like it had happened before so they had nothing to make these laws for until children did begin to work

I agree with you because WWI let to the major events of WWII happen. If Germany would have won the first war then he may have never come to power and the second war would never have began since he started it by blaming everything on the jews.

All Quiet on the Western Front showed us what happened in World War 1 with the trench warfare. It gives us an image of what really happened and shows how there was a huge stall in this type of war. Armies would penetrate and then retreat and then keep on doing it multiple times and that is why so many people died without anyone really winning the war.

Exploration and Colonization was probably the most important topic we talked about because it’s the first thing that happened and without it we wouldn’t have a United States and none of our other topics would have ever been talked about.

The building of the Panama Canal influenced our history greatly. It allowed people to travel places in sometimes half of the time of what it would normally take to go all the way around the tip of South America. This was much needed and still helps us today.

Our history had some major things happen such as the Industrialization era and without it our lives would be much different. It began what we have today; big businesses and it also brought the world many new innovations.

I belive that we can start to repeal some progressive era reforms to start getting jobs for more people but at the same time i think that we need to protect certain things like civil rights and the environment. We can gain many more jobs by taking away some small reforms and we need to gain jobs in the world. It doesnt help that there is an overwhelming population in the world to fill with jobs.

How will that make youn want to rebel? they are just there to stop people from getting out of control and starting mobs. The pinkertons help everyone out in this situation by keeping the workers safe from others on strike and by keeping the business out of harms way. You have the right to say what you want and go on strike but you dont have the right to be on my business property doing it so the pinkertons will keep you off of it also