Men started out wearing powdered wigs and breeches and changed to wear long pants and short hair. ... If a girl was twenty-five years old, and still was not married, it was considered a disgrace to her family. ... As time went on people started getting married older and began having less children. ...
A Wampanoag Indian described the impact as " A long time ago they had wise, men which in a grave manner taught the people knowledge, but they are dead, and their wisdom is buried with them, and now men live a giddy life, in ignorance, till they are white headed, and though ripe in years they go without wisdom to their graves." ...
Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. ... About two million men were sent away over seas in the American Expeditionary Force. ... These men were called the "doughboys". ...
