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.

All of these things were good at some point in time, but how come they all were some reasons of wars starting? How did they go from something good to something so bad?

Is imperialism a good thing though? Nationalism is a good thing but can be bad at times, it can start wars. But what about imperialism?

Kids that age shouldn't have to worry about supporting their family though. That is not right, it is way too much pressure and stress on the kids. Also, they could get hurt or die at some of the jobs that they were put to do.

And child labor still exists today in some places. It is horrible, kids should not be put to that hard of work at such a young age. Child labor laws should have been set way earlier than they were.

It was hard to be an immigrant. Could you imagine moving countries and going in with nothing, then be expected to live and get a job. It is really stressful and immigrants are really tough people for being able to do that.

It was a good movie. It should us how war really was and we saw how shell shock was in people actually was. War affected a lot of people, especially the people in the war. THis movie explained and showed that really well.

I agree! The Panama Canal allowed us to create planes, tranes, and many other forms of transportation. We would still be traveling by horse possibly! It is a very good thing that we made the canal. Who knows what it would be like without it.

I agree, without the Panama Canal it would have taken people more then double the time to send things, trade, and get to other places. This helped form our country into what it is today.

The movie All Is Quiet on the Western Front shows how life as a German soldier was like. At the beginning it kind of showed how young boys in school got persuaded into war without knowing what it was or even what it was about. They thought it would be fun, and they wouldn’t have anymore school! But, they soon realized that war was intense and you can’t take it as a joke. Once you are in you aren’t getting out. Surviving without going crazy is another thing they had to figure out. (How to calm themselves down when things got bad). All Is Quiet on the Western Front showed a lot of things you wouldn’t really expect in a war; for example, the huge obsession with boots. It gave you a better understanding of many things dealing with war.

https://wikis.nyu.edu/ek6/modernamerica/ index.php/Imperialism/Overview

America has been and always will be imperialistic. We tell other countries what we do and that they should do the same because it is the right way. America is wrong, there is no right way. Each country does their own thing and sees everything in a different way. For example, every single country uses the metric system, except America. Why is that you say? Because we like our way better so we didn’t change. That’s how other countries feel. We shouldn’t be pressuring them into doing what we do if they are functioning just fine by doing what they do.

http://sukritha.hubpages.com/hub/ChildLabourStillExist this tells how children are treated today where there are no child labor laws and how it was back in the day.

There are still places in the world today that make young children work odd jobs and in factories. We can’t imagine that because kids in America don’t usually work until they are 15 or 16 years old and their jobs are just regular everyday jobs that anyone could be doing. They aren’t put into factories and given little to no pay. The weight of supporting a family is not on their shoulders like it is in other countries. Kids here have it so good and we don’t realize it. Other children are working, fighting, and struggling for their lives while we just live ours like nothing is wrong in the world.

If we never won our independence from Great Britain we would still be in Great Britain, and we definitely would not be speaking English. If our people who traveled and found America hadn’t, and we didn’t fight for our separate “lives” away from Great Britain there would not be such thing as an American. We would be saying things like crumpet or drinking tea every day. Things would be so much different than what they are now.

http://www.genfiles.com/legal/womensrights.htm this site tells how life was without women’s rights back in the 1800’s and also explains what it would be like now if we had never established our women’s rights.

Could you imagine what today would be like if we hadn’t established women’s rights? Well it would be exactly like it was before they were established, maybe even worse. Women would not be working the same jobs that men do, possibly no jobs at all. They would most likely be sitting at home cooking, cleaning, and taking care of children. Everything that was theirs at once now is their husband’s property. One more thing, where you are sitting right now if you are a girl, without women’s rights you definitely would not be sitting there.

What are kids at age 7 going to do for work. The things they had these kids doing was unacceptable! They really should have banned this or set child labor laws earlier than they did. I know they had to help support the family, but honestly, at age 7!

We should keep going with the progressive era to make more jobs for the unemployed people. On the other hand we shouldn't keep going because it will wreck the environment and kill out animal species.

But without collective bargaining businesses could fire us for no reason! It isn't fair, workers need their rights. If we don't have rights than how are you going to get people to work for you. You need to treat your workers fairly otherwise your business is going to fail. Also, you can't take our rights like free speech away from us.

I have to agree, without collective bargaining our workers would have no rights. They could be fired and no one would have to give them a reason why. Wisconsin workers need their rights.

In the past it didn't matter how you treated the businesses, they didn't care. They treated you how they wanted to and you had to deal with it because you needed to support your family. Unions are definitely still needed to keep the working field fair. Without unions businesses wouldn't be required to do anything for you or even to treat you fairly. So why would you want to take unions away from us?

But without unions workers would have no say in anything. Business owners wouldn't have to give them vacation days, sick days, or anything. It wouldn't be fair. Unions keep it fair and allow workers to be treated like, well, human beings. Just because we have so many laws now doesn't mean you have to get rid of unions.

Without unions workers wouold have no control over their work lives. They could not say if they want vacation, sick days, or personal days. The business owners would have total control and you couldn't do anything about it. Unions are definitely still needed for the workers rights.

Wisconsin's state employees need collective bargaining. Without it they can be fired or have their rights striped from them for no reason. Collective bargaining helps them be treated fairly by business owners and gives them their rights. Wisconsin needs collective bargaining for its employees.

We, as humans, have rights like free speech. Strikes are a part of free speech so what are we doing wrong? You can't take our rights away from us.

But strikes are part of our rights to free speech, and you can't deny us our rights. Sure, if it starts to get violent then you could bring the Pinkertons in. But, it isn't even violent and we aren't disturbing anyone so why bring them in. They are just going to cause more of an issue than the strikers are.

Pinkertons should not be called in to stop a strike, especially if it hasn't gotten violent yet! We, being humans, have the right to go on strike or the right of free speech. You can't deny us our rights. Plus bringing in the Pinkertons will make the situation violent, which I am pretty sure that the business owners don't want people getting hurt on their property.

We don't complain we just want you to take our families, lives, and feelings into consideration. Step into our shoes for a week and you will see that taking our jobs away and replacing them with immigrants isn't going to do anything for you. It's just different people doing the same job everyday. We need to survive and support our families too.

We don't complain we just want you to take our families, lives, and feelings into consideration. Step into our shoes for a week and you will see that taking our jobs away and replacing them with immigrants isn't going to do anything for you. It's just different people doing the same job everyday. We need to survive and support our families too.

Overworking the kids is not a good idea. Seeing my children stressed out and sick is saddening. I don't want to see them like this. Why would you want to push children to work harder in dangerous jobs when they could easily work different jobs for less hours and still support the family.

As a mother, and a worker myself, I agree with the Keating-Owen Bill. I don't want my teenagers being overworked or my little boy/girl being put in dangerous situations just to help support the family. I would rather have them work less hours than working in deadly situations, being overworked, or pushed to their limits.

Being a female worker it is already hard enough to find a job, so limiting the amount of immigrants coming into the country is good for me. This way I don't have as much competition for a job and the business owners would pay me good amounts because they need the workers.

But if you get rid of minimum wage how are workers supposed to support their families and survive? Company owners are rich and don't need to save money, they are striving already and don't need to pay their workers less. Minimum wage makes it able for high schoolers to make money to save up for a car, or college, or even to sometimes support their family. If you take that away from them you will have less kids finishing school and going to college.

As a female worker I believe that the minimum wage is a good thing and should be kept. Without it the business owners wouldn't have to pay us, well pretty much anything. They could pay us 50 cents and get away with it, and if we would argue it they would probably fire us. We wouldn't be able to support our families or ourselves.

You are a wealthy business owner, and you don't need anymore money. You are able to live with what you have. Just let us workers work the 40 hours instead of 60 hours so we can have more down time and relax with our family. Or, you can also step into our shoes and see how you feel after a 60 hour work week.

I agree with a 40 hour work week. Being a female worker and cutting back from 60 to 40 hours gives me more time at home to take care of my familiy and kids and to do other house work. It also isn't as stressful because I am only working a little more than six hours per day. I would rather be able to spend time with my family and visit them at reunions rather than make a lot of money.