Exam 18: The Emergence of Americas Labor Consciousness

_____________ is (are) the key factor in explaining the decline in death rates in the U.S. in the late 19^th and early 20^th century.

The percentage of women in the U.S. labor force ___________ between 1880 and 1920.

Different political and cultural histories probably made immigrants' assimilation into the American labor force

Which of the following is most accurate about the period between the Civil War and World War I?

Which of the following was never a labor union?

American union membership as a percentage of the total nonfarm labor force reached its peak in

Between the 1880s and 1920, women composed roughly ____ of the workforce.

After 1896 the majority of immigrants to the U.S. were from

On the eve of World War I, gains for unions included all of the following except :

By the late 1800s, soft coal miners earned a higher hourly wage than other industrial workers of similar skill levels. The mining wage is an example of

In 1910 _____________ of children between the ages of 10 and 15 had jobs, but by 1920, this percentage had fallen to ____________ .

During what period did the greatest violence between organized labor and companies occur?

According to Brinley Thomas, the inflows of immigrants to the U.S. in the late-19^th and early 20^th centuries

In the early 1900s, regulation of the use of child labor

In the early 1900s,

Immigrants tend to be ________ skilled labor and ___________ unskilled labor.

The actual cultural differences between Northern and Western Europeans on the one hand and Southern and Eastern Europeans on the other, Walton and Rockoff imply

The Pullman strike of 1894

Between 1860 and 1890, both daily wages and annual earnings

In 1917, Congress imposed a serious restriction on immigration when it passed ________________ over President Wilson's veto.