Spending Away

            On average most Americans will spend somewhere around 70 dollars on Halloween. Total there is an expected to be 5.8 billion dollars that is spent on Halloween items all over the US, an almost 17.7% increase over last years. It is really amazing that Americans will still spend this much money on one day, even though how low the economy is. Since 2005 and five the average spending on Christmas has dropped from 860 dollars to 430 almost a 50% decrease. It is really funny how much Americans spend money.

What was the Knight's program?

The knights program was that they would championed an eight hour day and the abolition of child labor, the leaders were interested in long-range reform of the economy.

Why were women excluded from the National Labor Union?

Women were excluded from the National Labor Union because men argued that women were used to drive down their wages.

Immigration

I think it being a nation of Immigrants means that literally the whole nation is made up of immigrants. The United States used to be called “a melting pot” because of all of the immigrants. I think that is would be a really hard thing to immigrate somewhere because you would have to pack up everything that you could and just leave the rest behind. This must have been really hard to do in the late 19^th century because people came to America not having a job or anything there just hoping to get one and have a better life. In my opinion it would take a really brave person to do this.

            These traits of all of the different immigrants and there cultures is really a good thing. It allows the people in America to get a taste of cultures from all around the world. I very connected to my ancestors because they were in the same business that my dad is in today. Watching this film has allowed me to understand what immigrating to America was like. 

Faces of America

The film was about different people and there family tree. The show tracked down and discovered everything there was to know about the different peoples ancestors. Many of them were not really sure about were they come from and others had a pretty good idea. Some of the people discovered disturbing things about there family’s past and other people discovered really good things. Someone might learn that you never know what to expect about your family.

I think it would be a good thing to learn this kind of information. In some cases it could save your life because you could learn about a medical condition that has ran through your family. It would also be a good thing because it could help to explain who you are.