HISTORY 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Robert La Follette, Standard Oil, Upton Sinclair
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Midquiz: friday, october 14th in class, bring blue or green book(s) and pen, format: essay question with a few fill-in-the-blank or multiple choice questions. Essay 1 returned: by monday, oct 17th. No class: wed nov 23rd, fri nov 25th. 1893 panic and depression that lasts for the rest of the decade: forces people to think about the role of big business. 1895-1904 great merger movement results in smaller firms disappearing into consolidated corporations, which ended up representing 20% of american gdp. 1900-1910 american economic output increased by 85% with farms and cities growing for the last time in american history. 1901 us steel, created by j. p. morgan, becomes the first billion dollar economic enterprise. 1900-1914 13 million immigrants arrive in the us. 1910 some 2 million children under the age of 15 working for wages. Model t"s for each and in 1916 he told 730,000 for .
