Big Business and Labor

Multiple Choice

Urbanization means

• Concentration of population onto farms

• Concentration of population onto reservations

• Concentration of population into cities

Multiple Choice

During the early 1900s the United States was becoming more

• Rural

• Urban

Multiple Choice

Two big cities were New York City and

• Boston

• Chicago

• Los Angeles

• New Orleans

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One social Issues foudn in cities was

Multiple Choice

One of the biggest epidemics in 1832 and 1849 was

• Cholera

• Influenza

• Covid

• Plague

Multiple Choice

You have a job, but you owe the company money and if you quit you're arrested. This is called

• Entreprenuer

• Sharecropping

• Company town

• Wage Slavery

Multiple Choice

You get a job in a company and need to live in the town the company built with it's own store and everything. This is called

• Wage Slavery

• Company Town

• Entreprenuer

• Innovation

Multiple Choice

Companies built company towns to provide a good living environment for their workers.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which is not an example of the harsh conditions workers had?

• 12 hours a day, 6 days a week

• Workers received compensation for accidents

• Poorly lit, overheated, and badly ventilated

• Sweatshop conditions - hot, dark, small, and dirty

Multiple Choice

Workers kept these jobs despite their low pay and unsafe working conditions because

• They enjoyed the work

• They were poor and willing to work any job

• Conditions in their home country were worse

• They would be killed if they complained

Multiple Choice

Uriah Stephens founded

• American Railway Union

• National Trades Union

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Poll

Samuel Gompers founded

• American Federation of Labor (AFL)

• Knights of Labor

• National Trades Union

• American Railway Union

Multiple Choice

First Strike occurred in which industry?

• Railroad

• Oil

• Textiles

• Auto

Multiple Choice

The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to

• Break Monopolies

• Break Strikes

• Control Trade

• Enforce Laissez Faire Economics

Multiple Choice

Labor strikes such as the Homestead Strike in 1892 and the Pullman Strike in 1894 were considered failures by union organizers.

• True

• False

​Although not much changed immediately due to these strikes, they were well publicized, and people began to understand the problems faced by workers in factories. Attitudes began to change.

Multiple Choice

Workers who helped organize protests and strikes against business owners and managers were branded "Anarchists" in the press. This label seriously hurt the cause of workers.

• True

• False

​"Anarchist" (one who works for the overthrow of the government) was one of the scariest labels a person could get in the late 1800s.

Multiple Choice

In response to labor strikes in the late 1800s (such as the Coeur d'Alene Mines Strike of 1892) the United States government was willing to call in federal soldiers, and use violence, to break the strikes.

• True

• False

​The US government was clearly on the side of owners and managers when it came to labor conflicts.

Multiple Choice

United States V. EC. Knight Co. (1895)

The supreme court ruled that the Sherman Antitrust Act could not be used against the American Sugar Refining Company, which controlled almost all US sugar refining, because the Constitution allows Congress to regulate interstate trade, not manufacturing.

• For Big Business

• Against Big Business

Multiple Choice

Lochner v New York (1905)

New York State passed a law limiting bakery workers hours to no more than 60 per week. The Supreme Court ruled that this law was unconstitutional because it violated employers and workers' freedom to form contracts or agreements about labor hours.

• For Big Business

• Against Big Business

Multiple Choice

United States V Trans-Missouri Freight Association (1897)

The Trans-Missouri Freight Association set shipping rates for member railroads. The Supreme Court upheld the federal government's charge that the rate setting was an unreasonable trade restraint under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

• For Big Business

• Against Big Business

Multiple Choice

Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v U.S. (1911)

The Supreme Court ordered that the Standard Oil Company be split into smaller companies, ruling that its control of oil production, refining, and distribution violated the Constitution and the Sherman Act by creating an unreasonable restraint of trade.

• For Big Business

• Against Big Business