... James Merritt Ives, most likely the most renowned American print makers of the nineteenth century. Currier and Ives created more than 7,000 lithographs and prints, which represented life in everyday America from the 1840 to the end of the nineteenth Century . Before the United States became a superpower, domestic issues and everyday life appeared to be what Americans were mainly ... heading west, passing through a frontier settlement. This image clearly opposes old and new technologies. A straight, ever progressing, endless-like railroad bypasses and seems to literally leave the technic...

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... Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. Although at times they waged wars that would temporarily halt the European colonization, for the most part their voice in North America was forever muzzled. The colonial family was extended rather than nuclear. An extended family includes the core group of males, which are a grandfather, adult sons and sons" sons, ... exchange gifts at dinner. They would have such activities as husking bees, greased pole climbing, greased pig chasing, hopscotch, jump rope, marbles, or tag. Hunting was a very popular pastime i...

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... swing, where distillers were busy making the strongest and cheapest spirits. Because of the many deaths related to this 'epidemic', parliament passed an act in 1751 putting a high tax on strong spirits. The industrial revolution caused an upsurge in alcohol use as many people saw it as the ideal way to escape the boredom and pain of their urban working lives. Earlier this century ... . I am concerned that this hostility has not only led to disharmony and discord but has, even more importantly, profoundly prevented workable solutions towards alcohol and other drug abuse problems in North A...

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