The gold standard was a way to measure the worth of currency. It was based on how much gold could be bought for the currency. Independent political parties opposed it while the major parties that actually had influence on politics supported it.
Carnegie gave his workers a single holiday-the Fourth of July; for the rest of the year they worked like draft animals. "Hard! I guess it's hard," said a laborer at the Homestead mill. "I lost forty pounds the first three months I came into this business.
Answer: B. Both wanted the capital to be located near large population centers.
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