People who hopped trains to look for work were known as hoboes in the 1920's and 1930's. Most hoboes were teenagers or in their early 20's, and spent a lot of time on the road away from family and their homes.
Mansa Musa's net worth today is about $400 Billion.
One major problem the United States was suffering with when John F. Kennedy became president was HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE.
Answer:
Philippines
Explanation:
The United States acquired the Philippines as a result of the Spanish-American War, alongside Puerto Rico and Guam. However, the Philippines refused to recognize this rule. As the United States continued to face stiff opposition in the form of a guerrilla war, the Philippine-American War broke out. The war resulted in the death of 200,000-1 million Filipino civilians due to famine and disease.
The main point of the excerpt is that readers should be aware of the damage that the war has done to a generation of men who were impacted by it, and read the book with this idea in mind.
The epigraph wants to make sure that readers who approach this book do it with the same purpose as the one with which the author wrote it. He does not want the readers to think of this book as an accusation, a confession or an adventure.
