American Yawp Chapter 16

1. Taylorism attempted to use scientific principles to better handle which aspect of business?

b. Management

2. What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers?

c. The adoption of interchangeable parts

3. By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world’s industrial output. This was more than __________.

d. All of the above combined

4. 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?

a. United States Steel

5. By 1900, the richest ten percent controlled perhaps _______ percent of the nation’s wealth.

d. 90%

6. Which of the following most accurately describes the arguments of Social Darwinism?

a. State welfare and private charity would lead to degeneration by perpetuating the survival of the weak

7. Which of the following events most seriously damaged the Knights of Labor?

b. Haymarket Affair

8. Which of the following groups was the most radical?

a. Knights of Labor

9. The final two decades of the nineteenth century saw over _________ strikes and lockouts

d. 20,000

10. Which group founded the People’s Party (also known as the Populists)?

a. Small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains

11. What did the Populists propose in the Omaha Platform?

a. Nationalizing the country’s railroad and telegraph systems to ensure that essential services would be run in the best interests of the people

12. Why were southerners unable to maintain unity in the People’s Party?

b. Racial conflict

13. Why did William Jennings Bryan attack the Gold Standard?

c. He wanted to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts

14. Which of the following factors contributed to William McKinley’s victory over William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election?

b. McKinley was able to spend five times more than Bryan on the campaign

15. The Socialist Party of America achieved which of the following gains in the early twentieth century?

d. All of the above