Labor Unions 1

Which of the following is not a reason as to why the Grange formed?

• Railroads charged whatever they wanted

• Sharecropping kept farmers in endless debt

• Big businesses didn't pay farmers high enough wages

• Overproduction and Oversaturation of the market

When did the Grange form?

• 1867

• 1877

• 1887

• 1897

Prior to this, farmers had to pay railroad companies too much money for their mail.

• Cooperative Extension

• Rural Free Delivery

• The 15th Amendment

• The USPS

Railroads' high fees for shipping goods to market would eventually lead to....

• Farmers organizing the Grange Movement and the Populist party

• The Populist demand that the government help farmers by raising tariffs

• The government authorizing the use of silver to help farmers

• The government demanding that farmers slaughter mivestock to increase prices.

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What is the purpose of Populism?

• To encourage the government to take control of the inventions of the industrial revolution

• To stop immigrants from Europe from taking over factory jobs

• To force Robber barons to give up their riches so that workers could benefit

• To represent the interests of rural farmers and connect then to the rest of society

During the industrial Revolution in the U.S., laissez-faire economic policies led to what?

• Markets that were dominated by monopolies

• The creation of strong regulations that ensured businesses did not harm the general public

• Significant improvements in working conditions gained through collective bargaining by labor unions

• The government placing heavy taxes on the large monopolies and truasts

What does this political cartoon represent?

• Collective bargaining

• Farmers and Factory workers uniting

• Federal laws that raised the minimum wage

• Punching the air in celebration

The ICC was government agency created to initially regulate what monopoly?

• US Steel

• Textiles

• Railroads

• Standard Oil

What does this political cartoon represent?

• The NRA

• The IRS

• The ICC

• The Grange

What does "ICC" stand for?

• International Cooperative Committee

• Interactive Competitive Challenge

• Ideological Californian Corporations

• Interstate Commerce Commission