One of the major conflicts between 16th- and 17th-century protestants and catholics was over the style of worship services. whereas catholics focused on spectacle and spiritual and psychological transport to another place, protestants sought to involve worshippers more directly, through congregational participation and the restriction of ritual. what role does visual art play in both approaches

native americans suffered high rates of poverty and unemployment.

during the late 1960s and early 1970sthe need for political militancy grew among the native americans. throughout the 1960s, they had been the nation's poorest minority group, the most deprived group, according to practically every socioeconomic measure. in 1970, the indian unemployment rate was 10 times the national average, and 40 percent of the native american people were below the poverty line.