amanda, in some sense, probably yes. promote is probably too tough a word. i would say it did little to discourage it. the government was loathe to intervene in the affairs of business. it was only after much agitation by dissenters like mother jones that the public and the gov't really began to regulate the working hours of children.

I dunno Amanda. What I do know is that after the roaring 20s, America entered the Great Deppresion. The average american could no longer afford the model t car.

mr dixon, is it true that laissez-faire promoted child slavery??

The Model T was produced from 1908-1927. The initial price was $950 but dropped to $290 by the later years of production. It weighed about 1,200 pounds, had a 20 horsepower four-cylinder engine. In early years of production there was a choice of colors.

Back in the day, when average citizens in the 20s bought stuff, it was expensive because there was little of it and laborous. Henry Ford developed the assembly line to mass produce cars to make a lot at a cheaper price. This would greatly change competition between companies and change the economy of the US.

the model t was made by henry ford. he wanted a car that was affordable for the people that weren't so rich. the retailed for around 250 i think and they only came in black. the car opened up the world to some people that hadnt been more than a few miles from home. henry ford utilized the assembly line (a new idea of the time) to mass produce the car.

The 1920s, or better known as the Roaring 20s was a good time for americans. The sub machine gun was not the only thing that got its fame in the 20s. The Ford model T also became popular to many Americans as well.

al capone used a thompson sub machine gun, which gained its real fame in the 20s. it was adopted later by the military in WWII. the .45 bullet was well liked because of its knockdown power at close range. the thompson didnt have very good range. (hint hint, write about WWII, not the thompson. i just really like it)

alright Shaffer, if you didn't give us such a hard subject. Al Capone was a notorious ganster in Chicago. He is the reason why Chicago got its bad rep about crimes. He also got the nickname scarface.

come on guys, i need some more extra credit! you can think of something about al capone!!!!!!

al capone was a major gang leader during prohibition. he was one of the richest men during the 20s. he later died of an std.

is that better Christian?

The prohibition act was ratified in 1919 and later repealed in 1933 because of the major conflicts caused by bootleggers...


DIXON IS THE MAN!!!

The Prohibition era nobody really took serious. Bootleggers formed to distribute alcohol and speakeasies were also forming throughout the country. Eveyone was having a grand old time drinking liquor.

Ok well i hate to end yall's lil chain thing but i can add something!! Grant should then have been under prohibition which is the banning of alchol. HeHe I love you kids!!

u.s. grant became the 18th president. he apparently had a drinking problem because it talks about it in the song and abe lincoln once said, "find me the brand of whiskey that man drinks and send it to all my generals." wow, dont know how i remembered that. he got the job done, no matter the cost of life

I guess after finding them cigars, McCllelan disposed them and the Union switched Generals to Grant and he takes over the army. He wins the battle of Vicksburg by surrounding Mississippi City. He tried to split the south and help end the war faster.

with unbelievably good luck, mcclellan found lee's battle plans. a soldier found them wrapped around a couple of cigars. more men were wounded in a single day at antietam than on any other day of the civil war.

losses:
union: 12,410
confederate: 10,700

General McClellan, whose nickname was "little Mac" fought General Lee's army at the battle of Antietam where the largely outnumbered Lee escaped and the North claimed a victory.

Following the battle of Bull Run, the North led by General McClellan, won a costly victory at the battle of Shiloh. It was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War.

bull run, aka the first battle of manassas, was a confederate victory. it is also the battle where "stonewall" jackson got the nickname "stonewall"

Dorothea Dix was not the only active woman helping in the civil war. Clara Barton established an agency after the Battle of Bull Run. She was unbiased. She aided both the North and South in giving supplies to wounded soldiers.

during the civil war, dorothea dix became the union's superintendent of female nurses

Shaffer you took my color. Speaking about prisons, Dorothea Dix did prison reforms to help improve the conditions of prisoners in prisons.

eugene v. debs, dixon's good buddy, ran for president 5 times and was the only candidate to run from prison. i think he was put in prison for being part of the pullman strike. . sorry christain, i wasnt thinking.

ok jeff, let's try something a little more involved. we're going to play a little connection game. this is how it works. i'm going to give you something that we've studied and you continue the link by connecting another event we have studied. the events have to be linked somehow and you have to explain your link. for instance, if i start with the treaty of versailles you could counter with woodrow wilson since he was our representative in versailles, then someone else could take woodrow wilson and say he kept us out of war which might then lead to someone else saying something about our history of neurtality and so on...
so, i'm going to start this chain off with my good friend eugene v. debs.
take it away.

come on dixon, we need more questions!

3 The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions opposed the Alien and Sedition acts. Declared nullification to be the rightful remedy by the states for al unauthorized acts done under the pretext of the Constituition. The nullifiaction act of 1828 reinforced the Virginia and Kentucy resolutions concept of nullifiaction. This act opposed the tariff of abomination.
4 Open door notes were a series of policy statements written by US secretary of state John Hay. The notes were letters addresed to the imperilastic leaders of the world proposing that the nations share their trading rights with the US, this would create an open door. This also meant no single nation would have a monoply on trade with any part of China.
5 America would become an empire after the Spanish American War acquiring territories like the Phillipines, Guam and Puerto Rico. They also had a military base in Cuba. They constructed the Panama Canal to mobilize their navy faster from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. The US made other countries in the world realize that the US was a growing world power.

1. The Dawe's Act aimed to "americanize" the native Americans. The act broke up th ereservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual native americans. There was just one problem. Native Americans did not believe a person could own the land. By 1932 the US became greedy and obtained about two-thirds of the land that was set aside for them and did not give them money from the sale of the lands.
2. Abolitionists and progressives both fought rights for unskilled workers. Both wanted a gradual change in society. Abolitionists appealed to African-Americans and Progressives to mainly middle class reformers.

6 Immigrants did not settle in the south because the south did not provide opportunities for them. Cities offeres urban opportunities. Cities were cheapest and most convenient places to live in. Cities also offered unskilled laborers steady jobs in mills and factories.

new stuff.
1. evaluate the reasons for the failure of the dawes act.
2. compare the abolitionists to the progressives. similarities and differences.
3. compare the virginia and kentucky resolutions to the nullification act of 1828.
4. discuss the open door notes.
5. explain how america became an empire after the spanish american war.
6. explain why immigrants did not settle in the south.