1) In 1835, Jackson managed to reduce the federal debt to only $33,733.05, the lowest it had been since the first year of 1791.
2) He granted voting rights to all white men, excluding women and African Americans.
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By the third century, Christianity was well established in and around Greece and the Middle East, as well as in Rome, Alexandria, Carthage and a few cities such as Lyons in the 'barbarian' western Europe.
Christianity had largely failed to penetrate Egypt outside Alexandria, or much of western Europe. Even Italy, outside the city of Rome, seems to have largely resisted Christianity. It seems that the Egyptian and Celtic religions had not entered a period of decline and scepticism in the way that the Greco-Roman religion had done. However, there was no impediment to Christians preaching in those areas, other than a lack of interest on the part of the population.
Christian tradition suggests that the Christians suffered constant harrassment and persecution by the Roman authorities. However, Euan Cameron (Interpreting Christian History: The Challenge of the Churches' Past) says, "Contrary to popular tradition, the first three centuries of Christianity were not times of steady or consistent persecution. Persecution was sporadic, intermittent, and mostly local." Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) goes further and, on a number of occasions, praises the pagan Romans for their general tolerance towards Christianity. Widespread and persistent persecution of other faiths only really began with the Christian Empire.
There was a total of perhaps 12 years of official persecution of Christianity during nearly three hundred years in which Christianity existed in the pagan Empire. Otherwise, the Christians were largely allowed to worship as they pleased, and even to proselytise their faith, as long as they took care not to offend others or disturb the peace. This allowed Christianity to prosper and spread far and wide.
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Pueblo pottery as well as other art forms found in Native American indigenous groups of the southwestern United Sates originated when these groups changed from a nomadic lifestyle to a sedentary more permanent one, giving rise to agriculture, communities, settlements and expressions of culture. The Pueblo pottery is traditionally produced by women and has intricate and beautiful designs distinctive to the Pueblo people. The migration of Meso American groups from different parts and at different stages turned the now Southwestern United States in to a melting pot of cultures, traditions and people. This gave rise to the unique and rich pottery designs and its increase in production no longer limited to everyday use but also incorporated into religious and ceremonial use, as well as for trade and commerce. At the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century, we can see the negative effect of the once positive and enriching migration phenomenon. The displacement of native American people away from their original homelands caused a disruption in the production and conservation of their traditional art and became the reason for their near demise. Native Americans were forced to move to far away places and into enclosed or delimited areas called reservations, being separated from their original tribes and were not able to continue with their traditions and ways of life. This migration also caused disease and the death of a great part of the population and therefore a negative effect in their culture and legacy. No longer able to trade or communicate with other Native American groups, their traditions came very close to disappearing.
