Why does the united states place so many people in prisons? (find evidence to explain why)

How did americans disagree over the role of federal and state goverment before and durning the civil war

During world war if an artist published an editorial cartoon criticizing the american entry into the war that artists was guilty of

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”