EOC Review Session 2 - The Four Major Strikes

Strike #1

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

Strike #2

The Haymarket Square "Riot"

Strike #3

The Homestead Strike

Strike #4

The Pullman Strike

Multiple Choice

Negotiations between labor and management to win higher wages and shorter workweeks

• vertical integration

• collective bargaining

• horizontal integration

• Sherman Antitrust Act

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about labor unions in the late 1800’s is accurate?

• Strikes by labor unions usually gained public support.

• Labor union activities were frequently opposed by the government.

• Demands by labor unions were usually met.

• Arbitration was commonly used to end labor unrest.

Multiple Choice

Steelworkers, in the union, fought Carnegie Steel Co. over a decrease ↓ in wages $ - One of the first strikes.

• Railroad Strike of 1877

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Strike

Multiple Choice

This violent fight between the police and protestors at a labor rally near Chicago. They were protesting how workers were killed during a riot the day before.

• Railroad Strike of 1877

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Strike

Multiple Choice

Large labor union (700,000) members. Included both skilled and unskilled workers

• AFL

• CIO

• Knights of Labor

• Nation Labor union

Multiple Choice

What did several railroads announce in July of 1877 that triggered the first nationwide labor protest?

• employee layoffs

• wage cuts

• blacklists

• sixteen-hour workdays

Multiple Choice

Railway workers strike against the company that built railway cars.

• Railroad Strike of 1877

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Strike

Multiple Choice

1. Head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman Strike; 2. he was imprisoned along with his associates for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking. 3. While in prison, he read Socialist literature and emerged as a Socialist leader in America.

• Eugene V. Debs

• Socialism

• Industrial Workers of the World

• scab