Porcelain was a luxury good that was made in England and imported by the wealthy in the colonies and eventually became one of the luxury products the colonists boycotted with the non-importation agreements. Rather than pay the taxes the colonists decided to do without these luxury goods and this led to the development of more manufacturing in the colonies and less reliance on British goods. Furthermore, the various taxes such as the Sugar Act, Tea Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Taxes, Hat Act, and Iron Act also helped the colonist to become more resistant to British policies and caused the creation of competition between the colonies and England with the development of manufacturing in the colonies. It wasn't that the people in the colonies didn't how to make the products it was just easier to import them until the British drove to their breaking point.

To what level had an Americanization developed within the colonies creating a different culture in the colonies from that of the mother country. How many or what percentage of products were being developed and manufactured in the colonies that had previously come from England.

The stone's initial markings were to designate an area created as our nation's capitol as part of a compromise between Alexander Hamilton of New York and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia to settle debt disputes from the Revolutionary War period already paid by some Southern states and those states in the North who were looking for help with this debt. Also, slave holders in the South were afraid of the Northern influence on the institution of slavery could eventually lead to slavery being abolished. The compromise was struck and Washington, D.C. was to become the new capitol and Southerners felt more at ease with the capitol being closer to the South. The slave trade and slavery would be a part of the history of the nations Capitol Building and the building of many other structures in and around the city. Controversy over the slave trade being so close to Capitol Building and slavery being practiced in D. C. became increasingly controversial being the states in the slave holding South and the free states of the North. The politics of the period would lend itself to ignore these facts to a great extent and lead ot more and more problems between free and slave states as the nation grew westward. With the addition of new territory in the west as a result of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 the tensions and controversies between free and slave territory would lead to violence in the western territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Furthermore, presidential leaders of the period steered clear of the issues surrounding slavery and the election of president Abraham Lincoln would lead to secession by Southern states and the long bloody Civil War 1861-1865. So, just like the retrocession of Alexandria to the state of Virginia because of the pressure of the powerful slave holders and traders in the South the lack of political action by the nations leaders in the 1850's and compromises created only prolonged the inevitable fight that split a nation for four bloody years of fighting, but split it for a much longer period of time.

Students could use maps and government documents like treaties to exam how this nation expanded from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean. Also, the study of wars and the acquisition of territories around the world to help nations fight wars across the globe and expand the effectiveness of their military's especially navies to advance influence, trade and control all over the world.

Feeding an Army during WWII was a daunting task and the government leaned on the food companies to come up with ideas for the large scale production of rations for soldiers in the field that could used and eaten in the harshest conditions all over the world from bitter cold to scorching heat. Companies like Nescafe' and others were up to the task and came up with ways to freeze dry food and can foods as well as a chocolate bar that would withstand heat and not melt so easily become part of the field rations for soldiers and meet the caloric needs of the American soldier. Furthermore, after the war came to an abrupt end with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki these food companies were left with huge surpluses of food and were not willing to let go to waste and they began to market the products to American consumers, mainly women who did the shopping and cooking in American homes of this time period. The difficulties of prewar period eased somewhat by the studying of the consumer and developing advertising that help ease the social tensions associated with buying and preparing these powdered products rather than making them from scratch.

Advertisers had to develop ways to help the women in the American households overcome the stigma of being lazy, lonely and single, or simply not knowing how to cook meals from scratch using recipes handed down for generations or developing one's own recipe. Trying to do this proved to be a daunting task and they studied the foods such as cake mixes using powered eggs to bake a cake versus adding a fresh egg to the cake mix. With their own they concluded that the cake made with the fresh egg was better than the one made with powered eggs and some began to market their products in this manor to help women overcome the pressures in society about their abilities to run a household. Also, as society changed and more and more women entered the workplace during and after WWII the ease and simplicity as well as time saved with preparation of meals made these products more sensible.