USII 3c- Progressive Movement- Labor Conditions and Strikes

Bosses preferred hiring children because they...

• had nothing else to do
• provided cheap labor
• wanted to rebel from laws
• were cute

Who were the Progressives?

• Factory owners who tried to make inexpensive products.
• People who moved out of the city into the suburbs.
• Wealthy people who owned many tenement houses.
• People who tried to reform the government and society.

Why did people want to reform child labor?

• Children often worked long hours in dangerous factory conditions for very little money.
• Children needed to stay at home and help take care of the household.
• Children were getting sick at work and spreading it in the community.
• People wanted their children to work in factories

Which major strike at a Carnegie Steel Mill caused massive public outrage?

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Strike

• Haymarket riot

• Chicago teacher strike

Which major railroad strike led to federal troops intervening and the declaration of Labor Day as a national holiday?

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Strike

• Haymarket Riots

• Chicago teacher strike

What event in New York sparked outrage and urged lawmakers toward reform when 145 workers died in a fire in 1911?

• Grover Shoe Factory Fire

• Binghampton Clothing Factory Fire

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• Stern's Factory Fire

Child labor is an example of -

• Negative effects of Industrialization

• Positive effects of Industrialization

• Everyone who wants a job, can get one

• Tammany Hall

During the progressive era, how did workers fight to get better pay and work conditions?

• Created associations that help the unemployed

• Develop a corporation that allows the employees to buy the company

• Create groups known as unions that bargained with the employers to improve work conditions and benefits

• Create societies that discuss employees likes and disliked

Progressives were concerned about the _______ conditions of the factories and the ________ hours people were expected to work. 

• clean, jobs
• unsafe, long hours
• good, time
• money, places

Progressives focused on three areas of reform:

• easing the suffering of the urban ponies, improving unfair and dangerous dragon conditions, and reforming government at the national, snake, and local levels.

• easing the suffering of the rural poor, improving unfair and dangerous living conditions, and reforming government at the national, state, and international levels.

• easing the suffering of the urban poor, improving unfair and dangerous working conditions, and reforming government at the national, state, and local levels.