Ch 5: The Labor Movement

Which tactic was sometimes used by management to resist the demands of labor?

• strike

• boycott

• lockout

• picket line

What was an important consequences of the Haymarket Riot?

• decline of the Knights of Labor
• rally of public opinion in favor of workers
• victory of workers in the Homestead Strike
• break up of the American Federation of Labor

The Timeline shows events from the early American labor movement. Which completes the timeline by replacing the question mark?

• Arrest of Eugene V. Debs

• Collapse of American Railway Union

• Homestead Strike at Carnegie's steelworks

• Supreme Court applies antitrust laws to unions

Why did government leaders generally sympathize with business owners against labor in the late 19th Century?

• Government leaders received money from business and also believed in laissez-faire.
• Government leaders were followers of new ideologies from Europe such as socialism.
• Government leaders did not believe that conditions for industrial workers were all that bad.
• Government leaders feared violence from business owners if they took the side of workers.

What was the main cause of the Homestead Strike?

• Andrew Carnegie had wanted to employ Civil War veterans in his steelworks.
• Anarchists intended to blow up Andrew Carnegie's steelworks near Pittsburgh.
• Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick wanted to break up the power of the steelworkers' union.
• Steelworkers left their jobs to enlist as soldiers when a future war with Spain became likely.

How were the Homestead and Pullman Strikes similar?

• Both were ended by federal court injunctions.
• Both were led by union organizer Eugene V. Debs.
• Both ended in important defeats for organized labor.
• Both involved armed confrontations between workers and Pinkertons.