#2, Imperialism in the United States.

Imperialism is when a large country expands its economy or political control over a smaller a smaller nation. There are many pro and cons about imperialism here are some of them.
Pros:

• Creates more land and job opportunities which improves the economy.  
• More languages are introduced to the nation.
• More land to farm and ranch in which creates more food, meat, and jobs.

  Cons:

• Makes the nation look bad because other countries would see us as a country who is no longer neutral to other countries.
• Many jobs are lost for the people who live in the nation that are being taken over.
• Have to do something with all of the people who live in the country.
• Traditions from the country are easily forgot about by the larger country.

With this information i think that the US should not be a imperialist country because, It risks the US from being a country that is neutral and leads to other countries denying Americans access into there country. It also results as our country to not be a democracy anymore. It also puts us in a tough situation if the country has a lot of people and we have to move them to a other country or area.
 Bryan believed that the US should not be a imperialist country because, we would not give all of the rights to the immigrants that we would be controlling. Instead, they would want to exercise control over the new immigrant race.
 Roosevelt believed that the us should be an imperialist country because, if we don't take over the country we want to take over, a country bigger and more powerful than us will take over. He also believed that imperialism made us look strong and powerful and that isolationism made our country look weak.
 Platt believed that we should be a imperialist country. He later made the Platt Amendment that disallowed axnextion of cuba.

The jungle

1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown? You had to be a fast, strong, and a hardworking person that would not need much rest.
2)According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal.The plant owners main goal was to make money.
3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"Sinclair means that the people who worked there didn't care about if the meat was safely processed without any diseases or health risks. All they cared about was making money.
 How are pharmaceutical companies regulated:

The fda tests any drug in the laboratory that is waiting approval to sell the new drug. They test the drugs on animals first before humans. If the drug has little bad effects to animals, the drug will be tested for humans to try. If the drug is safe for human consumption the drug will go through multiple lab trials.  They are also yearly checks of the pharmacies if there's any illegal activity going on. The inspections are usually random so the pharmacies and drug producers won't have any time to hide any illegal drugs and illegal activity.  If they are caught doing anything illegal the pharmacy or producer of the drugs will most likely get shut down and sometimes people that committed the crimes will get arrested.

Sources: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PharmaceuticalsEconomicsandRegulation.html
             http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm269834.htm
            

  

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a fire that occured in the triangle shirtwaist factory in New York City on March 25, 1911. The factory produced women's blouses and about 500 people worked there at the time of the fire and most of the workers in the factory were young immigrant women. These women worked about 9 hours on weekdays and 7 hours on saturdays and earned $7-$12 per week. The fire started when there was flared in a scrap bin on the 8th floor of the building. The factory was on floors 8-10 on the 10 story Asch Building. The fire was likely ignited from a workers cigarette they had snuck in and the cigarette was thrown into a pile of scraps which held 2 months of cutting in it. Because of the managers locking the doors to the stairwells, and the flames blocking the stairwells and elevators, the people on the in the 8-10 floors could not escape. A book keeper from the 8th floor warned the people on the 10th floor about the fire but there was no way of communication to the 9th floor. But, the flames from the 8th floor reached the 9th floor right after.
             The only ways workers could get out of the building was going up the Greene Street stairway to the roof (only a dozen survived this way) and the single exterior fire escape, which was extremely flimsy. The staircase collapsed from the heat and the huge amount of weight on it, when it collapsed it dumped about 20 people to a 100 foot drop onto a pavement surface. Everyone died that had fell. The only people who got out were the people who took the elevator from the 9th floor. The workers on the 9th floor took the elevator by the elevator operators Joseph Zito and Gaspar Mortillalo by traveling up to the 9th floor 3 times. He had to stop the elevator because the elevator rails buckled because of the heat. Some workers pried the doors of the elevator open and got into the empty shaft. They were trying to slide down the cables or to land on top of the elevator which ended up warping the elevator car, this made it impossible for Zito to make a other trip to the 9th floor.
             The fire was the fourth highest death rate from a industrial accident in the U.S. The fire was also the most deadly disasters in New York City until the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The aftermath of the fire was that 141-148 people died from the fire. Most of the victims died of asphyxiation, burns, and butt impact injuries, some even died from all three of those causes. About 67 people jumped to their deaths also. The building is still standing now known as the Brown Building which is a Historical Landmark and also a New York City landmark.

Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKdMuVu1wi8

Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKdMuVu1wi8

              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

              http://equalvisibilityeverywhere.org/blog/the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire/

Life in the camp

The camps they would build were not well organized, the towns grew to be big. As the towns continued to grow big, the spirit of anarchy rose because there were no laws in the towns. Workers usually lived in canvas camps in the mountains, most of the time they were protected by wooden bunkhouses from the snow. There camps were most of the time next to the railroads which was good because, the railroad companies would not have to pay for transportation for the workers. The men ate dried up food by a cook bringing the food from the chinese areas in sacramento and san francisco, the food was prepared by a cook that each gang of workers had. The railroads camps would come and go, they were built fast and taken down fast. That would happen because, the workers moving to new areas so much and because of the bad weather that would come through the camps. The weather in the work areas a lot of the times tough, the work camps were sometimes located in the mountains which meant there was a lot of snow, strong winds, and very cold temperatures. These conditions caused the camps to deteriorate. When they did deteriorate they would usually build new camps close to the old ones which led for the same thing to happen all over again.
 But, there were mining towns close by that had many nice things. Some of them had Gambling houses, saloons, dance halls, and brothels. These camps were crowded with many miners and traders, these camps also had a good profit because of many miners and traders spending there money on these things. But like the other camps, they quickly popped up and quickly deteriorated. All together life in the working camps was tough and made life for the workers even harder due to the tough conditions in the camps.

Children of the civil war

Roughly around 20 percent of the soldiers in the civil war were under the age of 18. When the war started in 1861 many children enlisted in the army. The ages of the children soldiers varied from 10 - 17 years old. The legal age limit for union soldiers was 18 years old but, the confederacy set no minimum age limit.  Many of the children that entered the army while they could did it because, they wanted to escape the boring life of living as working on a farm with there parents and also to escape there abusive family.

        Most of the young soldiers enlisted to be a musician. The musicians played the bugle, the fife and the drums. Most of the musicians played during the battle was occurring. The reasons they would play were to issue marching commands and also to enhance the confidence of the soldiers during battle. Most of the children that enlisted wanted to become a musician because they were told that musicians did not engage of the fighting during the battles. Most children did get the role as a musician but some got switched to become a full fledge soldier. Even though musicians were not supposed to fight during battle most of the soldiers found them selfs holding a gun for protection.

 children that were in the army and the military during the civil war were happy when it ended in 1865. Most of the soldiers came home safe but some came home wounded and some even never came home. When the north was celebrating and being happy about there win, the south had to go through the feeling of defeat and shame. but at the same time african american people could live in freedom. In the end most children were happy that one of the most fierce wars in history was over.

Sources: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/grant-kids/
         
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