HM 322 help Minds Online/uophelp.com HM 322 help Minds Online/uophelp.com | Page 3

HM 322 Week 1 DQ 2
For more course tutorials visit
www.uophelp.com
Class, In the article, "Gaming", Andrew Jackson presidency was pointed
out as being a proponent of morality and during this time people viewed
gambling as sinful. Being a history buff and admiring some of the
accomplishments of his presidency I find it interesting that this time
period was considered a morality movement, considering this was also
the time of some major Indian removals from our newly populated
regions which is contrary to his stand against morality. This is also
ironic that these areas now have robust gambling areas.
However, from this how can we better understand how people viewed
gambling? What key words are associated with gambling and is it still
true today? Our concern with history, it is always someone's perception
and the author superficially glosses over some of the main issues, but in
the end lists the three types of gambling, what are they and how have
they impacted our society?
I find it interesting that the author points out Alabama which prohibits
gambling, we do have the SEC conference in football, which could be
categorized as a type of gambling, depending on a person's view of
gambling, but there are Indian Casino's in Alabama, a place of major
Indian removal during the Jacksonian presidency. We will discuss
the landscape of casinos further down the road, but I will point
the striking contrast to the environment, which is small town, old