Downward mobility happens when someone experiences an important decline in wealth, income, or occupational respect, from their preceding position. When the Garcia household moved to the United States, they went through a descending economic mobili...Economic-mobility …

The money came to replace the previous system of bartering of one good for another. The bartering system was inefficient and tiring since one had to have the service or product that the other needed to carry out an exchange. However, with the intr...How-Does-Money-Change-Everything? …

From the perspective of a contemporary scholar of slavery and the resulting slave revolts, it is hard to imagine the nature of the violence that came with slavery. The slaves were fearful of the violence they faced from the masters while the maste...Slave-Revolts-using-primary-sources:-Africa-Rebellion …