But that means that the prohibition law didn't work if the gangs went against the government. Government is meant to control/guide the people.

Prohibition has been an issue in the United States for alomst 75 or 80 years now. The government has made laws that makes drugs and alcohol illegal, but people still want/need the stuff so they do it anyways. Our government doesn't enforce the laws very well either so then no one gets caught. There is no point in having a prohiition on something if no one follows the law. The government either needs to enforce the laws more or just get rid of them because there is no point in having a law if no one enforces or follows it.

You're right Meghan. People should be getting in trouble for it but they aren't. Our government and law enforecements need to enforce the laws more so people will get caught for doing drugs and everything else.

I totally agree with you Meghan. Racism is always there, no one will ever get rid of it. Just because we have a black president doesn't mean that all of a sudden racism stopped.

It's not just for the money there its more for the economic reasons. But, I do agree with you, America is very imperialistic.

That is horrible though. I mean did they ever think when they were between the ages of 7 and 12 what they were doing. Well whatever it was they probably weren't being forced to work in dangerous factories. They really should have thought about forcing kids to work before they did it.

If Lewis and Clark would not have went exploring we probably wouldn't have everything that we do now. Maybe we wouldn't live here, have the same material for clothes, eat the same food, or who knows. It would be so different.

And it's a good thing that we had the useful equipmet to build the Panama Canal because without it who knows what kind of transportation we would have today.

Was imperialism good or bad though? Wasn't it sometimes a cause of war? Should America stay imperialistic?

Exactly that's what I think. We would not have been able to get our independence back if Germany would have won. Everything would have been different if we wouldn't have fought and won our independence right away.

Exaclty kids that young should not be put to work. Also, no one ever thinks that kids their age are making our clothes for almost no pay and we take it all for granted. Its horrible. Kids should not be forced to work or allowed to work until they are around the age of 14 or 15 years old.

Yeah at the beggining they were all happy and excited to go to war. They never realized that war is harsh and bad until the friend they pressured into going to war died right away. Then it really hit them.