Prompt Answer this focus question about Prohibition and the Volstead Act and what you have learned in this lesson to answer this prompt. Support your argument with at least FIVE concrete and specific examples from the documents.

If you were a congressional staff person, what would you recommend to the congressional representative you worked for about whether to continue the Volstead Act, revise it, or repeal it?

the mexican-american war was a conflict between the united states and mexico, fought from april 1846 to february 1848.

the government closely monitored its finances to avoid another financial collapse.

age 7 i learned how to ride a bike and skinned my knee

age 10 went on my first vacation to the beach

age 12 got in a car accident with my mom she got whiplash

age 14 i got my first pet and named it ripley

age 16 i got my my first car and it was blue

age 17 got my first job at target

explanation:

explanati“there were many such dangers, in which the odds were all against them. their children were not as well as they had been at home; but how could they know that there was no sewer to their house, and that the drainage of fifteen years was in a cesspool under it? how could they know that the pale-blue milk that they bought around the corner was watered, and doctored with formaldehyde besides? when the children were not well at home, teta elzbieta would gather herbs and cure them; now she was obliged to go to the drugstore and buy extracts–and how was she to know that they were all adulterated? how could they find out that their tea and coffee, their sugar and flour, had been doctored; that their canned peas had been colored with copper salts, and their fruit jams with aniline dyes? and even if they had known it, what good would it have done them, since there was no place within miles of them where any other sort was to be had? the bitter winter was coming, and they had to save money to get more clothing and bedding; but it would not matter in the least how much they saved, they could not get anything to keep them warm. all the clothing that was to be had in the stores was made of cotton and shoddy, which is made by tearing old clothes to pieces and weaving the fiber again. if they paid higher prices, they might get frills and fanciness, or be cheated; but genuine quality they could not obtain for love nor moneyon: