Due to the devastating loss of nearly a generation of men during the First World War, women were forced to step outside of the traditional feminine roles of the times. Women joined the military and served as caregivers and nurses. They worked the essential jobs that needed to done despite their male workers absence and kept AmericaÃ?s transportation systems running. . The willingness of these women to keep the country going helped to push ahead the 19th amendment that gave finally gave women the right to vote. :3
Ellis Island was the hub for millions of immigrants coming into the United States. Ellis Island functioned as the the first stop for immigrants coming into the United States from 1892 until 1954. Ellis Island now serves as a museum of the long immigrant history of the United States.
It was one of the first times war was being broadcast on live national television, and the horrors of war caused many in the American cities to protest the war and to stop sending young teens to what many thought was a war America had no place in.
