AMH Ch 16: Capital and Labor quiz
The final two decades of the nineteenth century saw over _________ strikes and lockouts
20,000
By 1900, the richest ten percent controlled perhaps _______ percent of the nation's wealth.
90%
Which of the following factors contributed to William McKinley's victory over William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election?
Answer: all of the above -McKinley had greater support in the population-dense northeast -Bryan's support lay mostly in the less populated southern and mountain states -McKinley was able to spend five times more than Bryan on the campaign -All of the above
By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world's industrial output. This was more than __________.
Britain, Germany, and France combined
Taylorism attempted to use scientific principles to better handle which aspect of business?
Management
What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers?
The adoption of interchangeable parts
A wave of mergers peaked between 1897 and 1904. The largest of these mergers created the first billion dollar American corporation. What was that corporation?
United States Steel
The Socialist Party of America achieved which of the following gains in the early twentieth century?
answer: all of the above -Garnered nearly one million votes for Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Debs in 1912 -Elected over 1,000 candidates to American political offices -Gained over 150,000 registered members -All of the above
Rockefeller participated in the growth of industrial America by
created the trust to allow for his domination of the oil industry
The adoption of the _____ gave Americans and foreign investors great faith in the value of the money printed by the federal government. However, it also restricted the nation's currency to the value of the ______ held by the federal government.
gold standard, gold
