Settlement houses and other agencies developed programs to educate immigrants and their children with the American culture. The children were taught hygiene, manners, conduct in daily life and most important of all, the use of the English language. The common schools developed particular subjects and extracurricular activities and new ways of enforcing discipline in order to Americanize these children.
Monsoon winds made trading across the Indian Ocean easier because they made trading more predictable and less dangerous. Without the monsoons when people could only rely sails and ors there was the possibility that their goods wouldn't make it on time and would go bad, or that the ship we sink.
