Alcohol was easily accessible because of all of the taverns located along the roads for the road workers. It was also more affordable‚ apple cider was easy to make because of the abundant amounts of apples grown in the area‚ and it was easy to transport over the mountains. The people considered water‚ and milk difficult to obtain‚ and more of a hazard to drink because of the diseases they carried. Coffee and tea were still more expensive than alcohol‚ and it was given at every event you could think
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The United States is a country with great opportunities for foreign immigrants from around the world. “The history of the United States is a history of immigration‚ beginning with English colonists landing in Virginia and Massachusetts in the early seventeenth century to avoid religious persecution. Since then‚ there have been several great waves of immigration to the United States” (Jacobs and Walter‚ 6). Many immigrants don’t even want to immigrate they don’t want to leave their families and friends
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Chinese Exclusion Act‚ expanded ten years later by the Geary Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act replaced the Burlingame Treaty ratified in 1868‚ which encouraged Chinese immigration‚ provided that "citizens of the United States in China of every religious persuasion and Chinese subjects in the United States shall enjoy entire liberty of conscience and shall be exempt from all disability or persecution on account of their religious faith or worship in either country" and granted certain privileges to citizens
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As the severity of the global warming threat attains universal recognition‚ the United States must look for ways to decrease its reliance on fossil fuels for electricity production. The combustion of fossil fuels such as oil and coal to generate electricity produces carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that lead to a variety of environmental problems. Nuclear power‚ on the other hand‚ is a comparatively clean source of energy. Though still widely employed‚ concerns over security of stored waste
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Mexico vs. United States Man‚ it’s hot! Temperature that exceeds one hundred degrees Fahrenheit is the only thing one finds at the Mexico‚ U.S. border while waiting to cross it. Yes‚ the United States and Mexico share a border‚ but they have other similarities‚ such as the kind of government‚ similar shopping facilities and wonderful vacationing locations. Differences also come into play when one has two different countries; these differences are people and government‚ which lead to other differences
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objectively study a group of people. Indigenous tribes‚ like the Yanomamo Tribe‚ and western civilizations‚ like the United States‚ are where some of the starkest differences can be seen on both how play is perceived and how people engage in play. In the United States play is largely perceived as a pleasurable activity. People play to avoid responsibilities or relax in the United States‚ but this is
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controversy over whether it should be legal or if it is even morally correct to do. There are places all over the world where prostitution is legal‚ but in the United States only two of the fifty states have legalized it-Rhode Island and Nevada. But there is a lot of evidence to suggest that Prostitution should be legalized in all fifty states because it is a perfectly legal and beneficial career. One argument against legalizing prostitution is that it would cause an increase in sexually transmitted
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According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)‚ (2017)‚ in 2015 approximately 36.5 million adults were smoking in the United States. Smoking tobacco is a leading risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and is a preventable cause of death. People smoke is not only in the United States‚ but also‚ in other parts of the globe. The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)‚ was developed by countries to attack some of the causes of the tobacco advertising
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Conclusion – It is important to highlight that some of those actions taken by previous presidents have had an impact in the incarceration rates in the United States. For example‚ the sentences for powder cocaine and crack cocaine are from 5 to 20 years- mandatory. This law had produced sentences for approximately 3‚000 Federal crack offenders each year. Our law makers should here by create new policies in
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to the United States and Texas. This allowed their economies to grow and fuel the development of these states. However‚ as states started to join the union‚ slavery started to decline in the northern United States and increase in the Lower United State including Texas. The United States was divided on slavery and the Norther States abolished slavery while the southern states embraced it. The northern states above the Missouri Compromise of 1820 did not allow slavery. The United States economy
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