SSUSH11e Practice Quiz

This political cartoon shows the

• power of unions in the US

• concern regarding factory working conditions

• spiraling inflation caused by economic panics

• conflict between workers and business leaders

Samuel Gompers was the leader of which labor union?

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

• Grangers

• Populists

How did the Pullman Strike (1894) end?

• the President sided with the workers

• the Federal government issued an injunction (order) to end it

• strikebreakers were hired to take the place of strikers

• rioters destroyed the Pullman rail car factory in Illinois

What was the biggest cause of the increase in labor unions during the Gilded Age?

• the way the workers were treated by big business

• the forceful leadership of the newly arriving immigrants

• the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission

• the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Which strike hurt labor unions because of its violence and deadly ending?

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Strike

• Wrigley Riot

Samuel Gompers was a leading proponent of what industrial issue?

• vertical integration

• the formation of trusts

• the defeat of labor unions

• the formation of labor unions

During the Gilded Age, the federal government usually took the side of __________ during labor disputes.

• workers

• business leaders

The Populist Party wanted the federal government to do all of the following EXCEPT

• free and unlimited coinage of silver

• government ownership of railroads

• graduated income tax

• government ownership of farms

This political cartoon shows the dispute between whom during the Gilded Age?

• business leaders and workers

• the government and business leaders

• workers and the government

• the North and the South

Why was the American Federation of Labor (AFL) more successful than the Knights of Labor (KOL)?

• the AFL only allowed skilled laborers to join while the KOL allowed both unskilled and skilled laborers to join

• the AFL only allowed unskilled laborers to join while the KOL allowed only skilled laborers to join

• the AFL only allowed skilled laborers to join while the KOL allowed only unskilled laborers to join

• the AFL only allowed unskilled laborers to join while the KOL allowed both unskilled and skilled laborers to join