mores

Examples of mores in the following topics:

• Modern Management

  • The mechanization of the manufacturing process allowed workers to be more productive in less time and factories to operate more efficiently.
  • Businesses searched for cheaper and more efficient ways to create products.
  • Frederick Winslow Taylor observed that the use of more advanced machinery could improve efficiency in steel production by requiring workers to make fewer motions in less time.

• Plantation Masters and Mistresses

  • While the term "planter" has no universally accepted definition, historians of the antebellum South have generally defined it in the strictest definition as a person owning property and 20 or more slaves, as noted by Peter Kolchin in his 1993 survey of American slavery.
  • The wealthiest planters, such as the Virginia elite with plantations on the James River, had more land and slaves.
  • Formwalt's planters are in the top 4.5 percent of landowners, translating into real estate worth six thousand dollars or more in 1850, 24,000 dollars or more in 1860, and 11,000 dollars or more in 1870.
  • Moneyhon defines large planters as owners of 20 or more slaves and six hundred or more acres.

• The Migratory Stream

  • Migrants to the Western US sought new economic opportunities such as larger, cheaper, and more fertile parcels of land.
  • Farming the plains was indeed more difficult than it had been back east.
  • Water management was more critical, lightning fires were more prevalent, the weather was more extreme, and rainfall was less predictable.
  • Farmers sought larger, cheaper, and more fertile parcels of land; merchants and tradesmen sought new customers and new leadership opportunities.

• From Roosevelt to Taft

  • Despite these two previous defeats, Bryan remained extremely popular among the more liberal and populist elements of the Democratic Party.
  • Bryan carried more counties than he had in 1900, but he did not reach or surpass the number of counties he had won in 1896.
  • The total vote increased greatly, more than a million over that of 1904.
  • Each party shared in the increase, but whereas Taft had nearly 50,000 more than Theodore Roosevelt, Bryan had nearly 1,500,000 more votes than Alton Parker had garnered, and more than in either of his previous campaigns.

• The Women's Rights Movement

  • The National Woman's Party authored more than 600 pieces of legislation for women's equality, more than 300 of which were passed.
  • After 1920, the National Woman's Party authored more than 600 pieces of legislation fighting for women's equality; more than 300 of these were passed.

• The Demographics of the Middle Colonies

  • The Middle Colonies were more ethnically diverse than elsewhere in British North America and were somewhat more socially tolerant.
  • Once colonization had begun, the Middle Colonies were more ethnically diverse than the other British colonial regions in North America and tended to be more socially tolerant.

• "A More Perfect Union"

  • In this transition, the "Union" was made "more perfect" by the creation of a strong federal government.
  • However, as rebellions and economic challenges arose, people began clamoring for something more.
  • However, this more perfect Union was not without wrinkles.
  • However, it proved to be a little more than a bandage that unraveled by the 1850s, as the U.S. accepted the fact that freedom and slavery could not exist together unchallenged in their desired "more perfect Union. "
  • Identify the compromises Convention delegates made in order to create a More Perfect Union

• The New Right

  • During his eight years in office the national debt more than doubled, from $907 billion in 1980 to $2.6 trillion in 1988, and consumer prices rose by more than 50%.
  • Both American New Rights are distinct from and opposed to the more moderate tradition of the so-called Rockefeller Republicans.
  • The second New Right (1964 to the present) was formed in the wake of the Goldwater campaign and had a more populist tone than the first New Right.
  • It is, in fact, secured, more than anything else, by limitations placed on those in Government".
  • During his eight years in office the national debt more than doubled, from $907 billion in 1980 to $2.6 trillion in 1988, and consumer prices rose by more than 50%.

• Archaic Hunters and Gatherers

  • The Archaic period saw a changing environment featuring a warmer, more arid climate and the disappearance of the last megafauna.
  • These regional adaptations would become the norm, with people relying less on hunting and gathering and more on a mixed economy of small game, fish, seasonal wild vegetables, and harvested plant foods.
  • Many groups continued as big-game hunters, but their hunting traditions became more varied and meat procurement methods more sophisticated.
  • During the period from 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE, shell rings -- large shell middens more or less surrounding open centers -- developed along the coast of the southeastern United States.

• The Market Revolution

  • The steel plow allowed farmers to till soil faster and more cheaply without having to make repairs as often.
  • As in the South after the cotton gin, farmers in the West raked in huge profits as they conquered more lands from the American Indians to plant more and more wheat.
  • For the first time, farmers began producing more wheat than the West could consume.