USHC 4.4: Farmers & Workers

USHC 4.4: Farmers & Workers

Multiple Choice

Farmers planted more crops to make more money when crop prices fell. Why did this lower the prices even more?

• It forced the Native Americans onto smaller reservations.

• It convinced factory owners to raise their wages.

• It stopped the exportation of American crops to Europe and Asia.

• It increased the supply even more and that lowered the demand.

Multiple Choice

Why did the farmers blame the railroads for their financial problems?

• Farmers were angry about the railroads taking their land to make new tracks.

• The railroads charged high prices to move and store crops.

• Farmers grew too many crops and the demand was too low.

• The railroads paid Congressmen to pass laws harmful to farmers.

Multiple Choice

Farmers begin to support which political party?

• Populist

• Democratic

• Republican

• Progressive

Multiple Choice

The most important issue of the Election of 1896 was

• whether or not women should be able to vote.

• opening the West to settlers.

• fixing the problems in the cities.

• to use the gold standard or bimetallism.

Multiple Choice

Why did many factory workers feel like they were replaceable cogs?

• The workers would often leave one job to get another in a different factory

• The supply of workers was so high, if a worker got hurt the owners would hire the next guy.

• The owners wanted new

  employees every few years.

• The demand for worker was so high, the owners had to raise wages to get new workers.

Multiple Choice

During the late 19th century, which practices were used by employers against workers?

• Boycotts and walkouts

• Picketing and walkouts

• Blacklists and yellow-dog contracts

• Mass rallies and sit-down strikes

Multiple Choice

Why were unions made up of skilled workers more damaging to the companies

• Skilled workers were able to

  sell the ideas of their company to other companies.

• Skilled laborers are much harder to replace than unskilled workers.

• Unskilled workers were never able to join together for a long period of time.

• The owners wouldn’t allow them to leave the building if a strike was going to start.

EOC REVIEW QUESTIONS

Multiple Choice

During the Industrial Age, what obstacle kept labor unions from being successful?

• Most labor unions refused to allow unskilled workers to join.

• New regulations improved working conditions, causing a reduction in labor union membership.

• Too much public involvement in strikes caused them to be difficult to organize and carry out.

• The government supported the interests of businesses over workers.

Multiple Choice

Why is the Interstate Commerce Act considered a historical turning point?

• It was the first time farmers received government subsidies.

• It was the last time that the government intervened in big business.

• It lowered tariffs farther than ever before.

• It took a step towards regulating railroads and trusts.

Multiple Choice

Which statement summarizes the "Cross of Gold" speech by William Jennings Bryan?

• The speech centers on the issue of separation of church and state.

• The speech centers on the issue of organizing Gilded Age politics.

• The speech centers on the issue of endorsing the coinage of silver.

• The speech centers on the issue of destroying the organization of unions.

Multiple Choice

In order to help western farmers in the late 1800s, the Granger Movement advocated for what reform?

• government regulation of railroad shipping rates

• the discontinuation of the use of paper currency

• an end to the graduated income tax

• strict adherence to the gold standard

Multiple Choice

What common result occurred due to the Pullman Strike, Haymarket Incident, and Homestead Strike?

• Newspapers largely ignored the events.

• The US government banned labor unions.

• Public perception of unions became more negative.

• Increased government support of labor organizations.

Multiple Choice

A basic economic goal of labor unions of the late 19th century was to achieve

• Government ownership of industry

• A shorter workday and higher wages

• Increased fringe benefits and medical coverage

• Equal pay for equal work

Multiple Choice

In the late 1800’s, the outcome of most strikes showed that labor unions

• Successfully used violence to solve labor problems

• Had government support to improve working conditions

• Benefited both workers and management in their efforts to unionize

• Lacked popular and political support