Most American sailors did this because they needed to get money and make a living. Making/earning money or receiving needed materials back then was much harder than it is right now, and sailors and regular people were willing to go to extremes to get money to provide for themselves and possibly their families. The materials that were traded with foreign countries were also typically not available to receive in the US, so those who really needed them were willing to do whatever it took.
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If I was born in early 1900 in America, life would have been a lot tougher than it is today. There were not many opportunities in the corporate sector and small scale industries were in very low amount. In those times, I would have been more prone to survival and might have started earning just after high school by working in a factory or such.
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Its characters showed little regard for morals.
Explanation:
<em>The 1920s were marked by an economic growth combined with a carefree living lifestyle in the United States; this era is also known as the Jazz Age or the roaring twenties. </em>
F. Scott Fitzgerald captured this period in his novel The Great Gatsby, where a millionaire named Jay Gatsby threw parties in his mansion in Long Island filled with food, liquor, and drugs for an interested society with no regard for morals and that didn't cared for him only to attract Daisy Buchanan, (who was a married woman). The Great Gatsby represents a time of social change when America achieved prosperity from industrialization, women owned their right to vote, and alcohol consumption and the mafia began to rise uncontrollably.
The United States acquire Florida from Spain "<span>by a separate treaty," although it should be noted that talks about the acquisition had been in place for some time. </span>