The Treaty of Ghent which ended the War of 1812, made no mention of the practice of Impressment, over which the war was fought. In essence, the Treaty re-established the Status Quo Ante Bellum (the way things were before the war) as was often the case in European Wars.
Answer:
they were an inexpensive means of escaping the reality of economic hardship
I don’t know if this is right, but I think it is dissipation
