The Industrial Age - Workers and Rights

Child labor laws said that children working in factories had to be how old?

• 16 years old

• 13 years old

• 12 years old

• 10 years old

Groups formed by unhappy workers to demand better pay and working conditions were called:

• Trusts

• Labor Unions

• Strikebreakers

• Monopolies

When workers strike, companies will often respond by:

• Hiring Children

• Increasing Benefits/Wages

• Hiring Strikebreakers

• Hiring Armed Thugs

What is it called when unions represent workers in talking to management?

• Collective Bargaining

• Injunctions

• Strikebreaking

• Strikes

Demands for a safer working environment grew after the

• Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company

• Haymarket Affair

• Great Railway Strike

• Election of Grover Cleveland as President

In 1886 a group of national trade unions formed the AFL, or

• American Founders League

• American Federation of Labor

• Association of Federal Law

• Association of Factory Laborers

What event caused the steelworkers’ union lose members?

• After the Haymarket Riot

• After the Homestead Strike

• After the Pullman Strike

• After Collective Bargaining

What union leader led the Pullman Strike?

• Andrew Carnagie

• Eugene V. Debs

• John D. Rockefeller

• J. Pierpont Morgan

US Attourney General Richard Olney ordered an injunction for which Worker's rights strike?

• The Pullman Strike

• The 1877 Railroad Strike

• The Haymarket Riot

• The Homestead Strike

A court order to stop a labor union from striking is called a:

• Infiltration

• Injunction

• Innovation

• Intervention