Unit Test 1 Review

Which of the following characterizes the role of women during the Gilded Age?

• The majority of women stayed at home to take care of the children.Women were generally not allowed to work in factories.
• Women were generally not allowed to work in factories.
• Many women had more than one job in addition to responsibilities at home
• Women usually worked outside the home and did not have a great deal of responsibilities at home

What is one way that the system of mass production generally affected families?

• Instead of whole families working at home, children went to work in factories.
  
• Instead of whole families working at factories, mothers and fathers worked at home.
• Instead of working together in factories families worked at home
• Instead of working together at home, families worked in factories

The system of large amounts of products produced rapidly by machines is called

• Skilled Production
• Unskilled Production
• Mass Production
• Limited Production

Why did blacklisted union members have trouble finding jobs after the Pullman strike?

• They could be criminally charged if they applied for work elsewhere.
• They had been physically injured during the strike and not work.
• They had been arrested and had criminal records following the strike.
• They were viewed by potential employers as troublemakers.

As a result of the system of mass production, the majority of factory owners

• replaced skilled workers with unskilled workers.
  
• Eliminated woment workers and hired only male workers.
• used only child laborers.
• replaced unskilled workers with skilled workers

Which of the following can be inferred about the federal intervention that ended the 1894 Pullman strike?

• The government did not consider the interruption of mail important.The government considered official, not personal, mail important.
• The government considered official, not personal, mail important.
• The government considered mail delivery to be of vital importance
• The government did not consider mail delivery by railroad to be important.

Following the Pullman strike, efforts by employers to obtain anti-union court orders were generally

• unsuccessful because the courts did not have the power to issue them.unsuccessful because of widespread sympathy for union activities.
  
• unsuccessful because of widespread sympathy for union activities
• successful because anti-union court orders were seldom used.
• successful because there were no legal protections for unions

Which of the following was a direct result of the Pullman strike?

• The Pullman Company began to lay off workers and cut wages
• Eugene V. Debs received a cash settlement from the Pullman Company
• Eugene V. Debs was arrested for his union activities and put in jail

The wildcat strike by employees of the Pullman Company in 1894 was

• disorganized and ineffective
• Not approved by the Union

Which of the following best states the relationship between the government, company management, and striking workers during the late 1800s?

• The government nearly always sided with striking workers against companies.
  
• Companies often hired government agents to keep striking workers in line.
• The government nearly always sided with companies against striking workers.