The development of medications to treat a number of the disorders suffered by the mentally ill.
Anti-psychotic medications were introduced in the late 1950s and gained wider use in the 1960s. This allowed for the treatment of symptoms such as hallucinations and other psychoses.
Another factor was the <span>MentalRetardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act, passed by Congress in 1963 and signed into law by President John F. Kennedy. The act emphasized deinstitutionalization, providing funding for community health centers and initiatives to help people stay in their communities rather than being committed to asylums for mental health problems.</span>
Because they could be turned into slave states, giving more power to the slaveowners in the south. Also, expansion policy and the dram of Manifest Destiny played a part in desiring that land.
Sociology. the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period: In the Greek ethos the individual was highly valued.
Killings directed towards a large group of people
