While it was true that western lands were somewhat more fertile than the now-depleted lands of the East, many of the pioneers were attracted to the frontier in order to speculate in land, i.e. to purchase large quantities of cheap government land and to sell it at a profit to later comers
"The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies" ... 3.4.3 Elsewhere in Europe .... One of the IWW's most important contributions to the labor movement and broader push towards ... eventually took the name Workers' International Industrial Union, which was disbanded in 1924...For those in the industrial sector, organized labor. ... From that time on, local craft unions proliferated in the cities, publishing lists of “prices” for ...
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The main reason why the US joined the war was because multiple attack on passenger and merchant ships with submarine attacks .The final straw was when the RMS Lusitania by a German u-boat going to Liverpool England .
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