840 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 840
Social and geographical mobility: Market Rev.
-no significant change in mobility patterns as the agricultural economy remained the dominant
force.
-increased social mobility but decreased geographical mobility because people were tied to
their factory towns.
-More social and geographical mobility due to more inventions being made so travel is easier
and more jobs were created for greater social mobility
-less social and geographical mobility due to the rigid caste system established by the factory
owners.
Definition 2 of 840
1863-1947
*His Model-T, introduced in 1908, was the first inexpensive, mass-produced automobile
*Use of the moving assembly line heavily influenced American manufacturing
*He paid workers $5 per day, more than doubling the average autoworker's wage
*He was strongly anti-union
Henry Ford
Agency
Television
Captains of Industry or Robber Barons
,Term 3 of 840
Give two reasons why Americans lost faith in the efficacy of the national government and started
supporting "small-government" conservatives.
The issue of how the land would be used--slavery or free?
1950s
*Group of artists and writers who rejected traditional artistic and social forms
*Influences included psychedelic drugs and Eastern beliefs, such as Zen Buddhism
*Members rejected regular work and preferred communal living
*Many members were located around San Francisco
*Writers of the generation included Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Tight control over the process to exploit/convert native population.
1. Watergate: distrust in officials
2. Perceived social chaos of 60s, such as urban riots
3. Vietnam: feeling the government was lying, had no clear plan.
Definition 4 of 840
1920s-1930s
*Within months of Hoover's election, the stock market crashed, leading the nation into the Great
Depression
*Decline in the American economy meant less money spent on loans and products from other
countries
*Foreign powers were not able to pay debts back to the US
*American exports dropped and the Depression spread
Which two crops indigenous to America had the largest impact on the European population?
Japanese Internment Camps
Stephen Douglas
Foreign Economies and the Great Depression