Industrial/ Progressive Era

Samuel Gompers was the leader of which labor union?

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

• Grangers

• Populists

Factory owners used child labor because children--

• Read better than their parents
• Are more efficient than other workers
• Can be paid less than adults
• Needed jobs to support parent

Which was NOT a problem encountered by factory workers?

• Long hours
• Pay for working overtime hours
• Unsafe working hours
• Low wages

What did labor unions use to get better working conditions?

• The help of children 
• Protest and strikes
• Ads on the radio
• Taking hostages

In which of the following places did 146 female workers die in a fire?

• Carnegie Steels Homestead Plant
• the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
• Haymarket Square
• the Pullman factory

Which of the following is a strategy used by unions to force employers to meet labor demands?

• Injunctions 
• Lock outs 
• Scabs 
• Strikes 

When was the Progressive Era?

• Antebellum
• 1865-1877
• 1900-1920
• 1933-1945

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

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CCSS.RL.K.6

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hines
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6