<span>Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment?</span>
Because there were bigger, stronger, older nations that would
have loved to get their hands on that rich territory that the United
States covered ... France, England, Spain, etc. Washington knew
that the young USA could only survive as a nation if the people
remained united, and all those things ... taking sides in international
conflict (not remaining neutral), national debt, sectionalism (north
against south, east against west, old states against new states),
political parties (Whigs against Tories, Republicans against
Democrats), are things that could set groups of the people
against each other.
In the late 19th century, men, women, and children were working, with women and children receiving less pay than men. These people had to work in poor working conditions and low wages (women sometimes receiving six dollars a week).
