I agree with you here Viven addictions can tear apart familes and take peoples jobs away. So if we would put restrictions on this maybe it would help to lessen these awful results of addictions. We would have to go about this the right way and not be too extrememly strick on drinking laws. Otherwise there may be an uproar of unrest amoungst U.S. citiznes.

Letting the government oversee the trade of these drugs is a good point. By letting them control and regulate the trade of these items it will lessen the violence that is right now associated with illegalized drugs. Example drug wars (like Jake said)

It is unfortuante but true, many people were taken advantage of at the time of prohibition. Drinking was and still is a very expensive habit to feed. At the time of prohibition mobsters and others who provided the alcohol knew this and would take those adicted to alcohol for all they had.

Prohibition doesn't work because people will drink anyway. By the governement telling people that drinking is not allowed, it will just make people want to drink more anyway just to go against the government.

I also dissagree with this America was indeed very imperialistic at this time. They many times became involved in foreign affairs that didn't involve them. They would however push their way in to it to try and better the U.S.

Now that America had shown their imperialistic power every other country wanted to challenge them. Becuase they had this huge target on their back the U.S. was forced to continually become involved in other conflicts that were either started by us or other countries.

Without thefood reforms food would still be being made very cheaply and most of the time it would not be very sanitary. There would not be the regulations that manufactures would have to follow, they would cut coners that would cut down not only on cost to manufacture it but the quality of the products.

There was so much tension during this time and Teddy Roosevelt's main objective was try to release some of this tension. He did this by creating many laws and acts that improved the life of an average American.

This canal cut of thousands of miles of waterway that ships would have to go through to ship goods from coast to coast. It not only saves time but it saves shipping companies thousands of dollars a year.

It goes both ways sometimes bussiness owners will push their workers to their breaking point. Too bad for them they don't realize what has happend in the past. Workers will eventually rebel when they realize that the bussiness owner doesn't own them. The owner needs them to even be able to have a bussiness. Maybe these bussiness owners should check out this site to learn about what could potentially happen to their workers http://www.academicamerican.com/progressive/topics/progressive.html

The biggest difference from now and then is both work conditions and work hours. Young adults under the age of 16 are protected by child labor laws that were formed back in the time of the progressive era that are still used today.

This is a very good post that I agree with. The German soldiers most of the time had no idea what they were fighting for bu tehe idea of being in the army was intreiguing to them. After the treaty of Versailles left Germany in ruins the german citizens wanted a scapegoat and Hitler was able to give it them by blaming the Jews.

This book was an example of how the media was such a strong influence on the American public. This one book was able to force changes in government. Today media is still a huge influence in our society and still makes the government see changes that they other wise would try to turn a blind eye to.

This is true America was very imperialistic during this war but what made them imperialistic? Was it the face that they got involved for their own gain or the fact that they by the end of the war they were a huge political power?

Racism is still a problem in America and these feelings and actions are carried over from our dark history during the civil war. At this time slaves were widely used in the deep south and all over. This was a very long time ago but the ideas that blacks are not our equals is still there because of the past they once had.

This was indeed a huge leap for the U.S. and in adddition to schools, food safety, and drug safety work conditions weere also drastically improved during this era. Workers would go on stikes and unions were also formed. By doing so workers took matters into their own hands in the unions. Some of these ideas have been transfered to todays world unions are still used but are not as common because condtions are not nearly as bad as they were back then.

The United States were the ones who finished the Panama Cannal, however it was started by the French. The French stoped their work on the cannal after loosing the majority of their workers to diseases, this was the difference between the Americans and the French. The U.S. realized what was killing their workers and so they took preventive messures like draining swaps and spraying insecticide. Here is a link of an overview of the creation of the panama canal http://www.pancanal.com/eng/history/history/american.html

The Treaty of Versailes was the treaty that was created at the end of the First World War. This treaty established 9 new countries and also gave Germany sole responsibility for the War. There were many problems that the Treaty brought about the main ones being; humiliating germany (this set up the premise for WWII), ignoring the needs of the Bolshevik government in Russia, and it created international tensions about the descions that were made about the colonies after the war.

The Spanish American War was basically the first showing of the United States as an imperialistic power. This was the begining of the United States as a huge world power. This power also put a target on our back because we were a large world power. There became a competion between countries everyone wanted to be the best and considering at that time the U.S. was ontop every other couontry wanted to bring us down. Here is a link showing the U.S. as an imperialistic power during the Spanish Warhttp://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n4p4_Ries.html

Woodrow Wilson wanted...

1. for there to be no scectrive treaties or agreements bewteen countries

2. Freedom of the seas for all

3. Tarrifs and other taxes should be lowered to encourage trade

4. Arms and weapons should be lowered to reduce militaristic impulese

5. Countries should take into consideration the interest of their people as well as their imperialistic powers.

The next 8 points of his speech were about boundary changes after the war. The 14th and final point was Wilson calling for the creation of The League of Nations. The league would provide a different way of solving disputes between countrie without having to go to war.

Western Migration was a very large part of U.S. history it is was helped expand our country. The U.S. government wanted people to move out west to help expand our country, so as an added incentive they put into place the Homestead act of 1862 which gave free land to anyone and everyone who wanted it. The travel to the west was dangerous and often deadly, but the added incentive by the government was just enough of a push to get the migration going. This is a push and pull situation, the government gave an incentive and it pulled migrationers in to explore. Here is link of a video from the Doner party and their travels. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/donner/player/ This video shows just how dangerous traveling to the west was

After the civil war the United States began to try and reconstruct their country after it was left in ruins. One of the main goalds during reconstruction was to try and create better rights for African Americans, who were slaves at the time. Without this reconstruction era America could still be a very croupt society without racial equality which would have dramaticaly effected our country's history.

During the exploration era many people would leave their countries in hopes of finding new land and new freedom. For example the majority of the immigrants that came to the U.S. would colonize which would eventually expand to societies. Without these people taking this step of exploration the United States would not be as diverse and great as it is today.

Store workers and non state employees don't have the same situation. The do not have anything to negotiate. Where state workers have things such as retirment benifits, taxes, and health care support that they need to have a say in. For example teachers and their bargaining rights if they had non what so ever they would have no say in class sizes. Imagine a kid going to school and trying to get a personalized education in a class of 30+ students. It benifits everyone in the long run for state employees to have their bargaining rights.