Before the Civil War, the Free-Soil movement and the Republican Party embraced this idea for the American West: a territory reserved for small white farmers, unchallenged by the wealthy plantation owners who could buy up vast tracts of land and employ slave labor.
<span>This is a fitting motto for our nation, because the founding fathers had many different views on how the country should be operated and governed. The idea that they were able to reach someone of a general consensus is a testament to the nation's democratic values. </span>
At the time of war, Arthur Empey felt enraged by the sinking of the Lusitania and, the loss of American passengers, he expected to join the American army to combat the Germans. When America did not declare war immediately Empey decided to board a ship to England where he was enlisted in the British army. This was a violation of the neutrality law though no one seemed to care, and soon he was manning a trench on the front lines. He was made a member of a machine gun crew and sat in the British trench peering towards the German lines.
