This mast produced nail connects to many broder themes in our 19th century history. Immigration, the explosion of manufactured housing, westward movement.... This mass produced nail allowed more people to immigrate here and build homes. The explosion in population lead to the expansion and settlement to the west. Tensions increased between the north and south about slavery. The American Indians were forced to move away from people taking over and building on the land.

The nail relates to the story of the need to open up and explore the west because the population on the land on the east had become so heavily populated. The nail helped our country grow in population and infrastructure was made possible with the use of nails.

Manufacturing, women's rights, workforce unions, safe working condition labor laws. Manufacturing of garments. Million dollar clothing business lead to the increase of factories. The inhuman working conditions. The historical fire that killed over 140 trapped workers.

How much were these poor overworked people paid?
How were these working conditions different from what the enslaved endured in the south?
How did the owners of the Triangle clothing company not charged with the responsibility of the deaths of all those people?
Did they pay any compensation for the deaths of these people?

This connects to plans for our Us Capital city laid out by our founding fathers. It represents the early division of our capital city city about slavery-- how 1/3 the size of our capital was shrunk maily over views of slavery. It represents how our country became further divided about slavery and eventually went to war. It represents many boundaries that were placed because of slavery and eventually removed with the ending of it.

Students can explore how boundaries started from the very beginning of our country's history-- Jamestown and the building of the fort. The with various types of fences. Boundaries created by geographic features that helped in the out lines of our states. Boundaries the formulated Northern free and Southern slave states. Many of these have changed with the growth of our country. Many of our historical boundaries no longer exist because of the out lawing of slavery.

Instant coffee connects to the need for food companies during WW11 need to develop various food processing to feed our large army in areas all over the world. It connects to US soldiers drinking daily in their rations. It connects to how food companies study their consumers in order to advertise and market their products so consumers will by - their premade not so superior products.

I would think the limitations would be the lack of focus on women's needs during a time when most focus was on a world war. Seems like they would be extremely had to find -- Many during the war was towards women helping with the war effort by growing and canning your own foods. It would be hard trying to find how large of a group of women
they analyzed. Were the groups of women they studied in one area of our country or all over. Rural or urban-- after the war many women decided to stay in the workforce. These women would be more inclined to shop premade foods. Women that continued to stay home would have the time to cook totally from scratch. It seems like it would be really difficult to analyze how advertising changes women. I believe World War 2 had a bigger impact on changes women's roles -- so it would be hard to seperate the two.