Organized Labor Movement 9.3 (327-333)

Factory workers toiled long hours-12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Countless thousands of others worked similar hours in small, hot, dark and dirty workhouses known as

By the end of the 1800's one in five children

• worked rather than attend school

• attended school

• died in factories

large scale Immigration caused

• wages to remain low

• wages to increase

• the price of consumer goods to increase

• the profits of businesses to decrease

As early as the 1820's, factory workers tried to gain more power by using the technique of collective

Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• Andrew Carnegie

• Luke Skywalker

The Knights of Labor wished to help all workers EXCEPT for African Americans.

• True

• False

The American Federation of Labor was/is an umbrella organization of many different unions.

• True

• False

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The AFL and The Knights of Labor had the same views regarding recruiting women and African Amercians.

• True

• False

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The Hay Market Riot helped the Knights of Labor attract new members and grow into a stronger union.

• True

• False

• 

How did the Supreme Court rule in the court case regarding of Eugene V. Deb as a result of the Pullman Strike?

• Farmers had their wages protected against monopolistic prices of railroads.

• Railroad workers got some protects against the abuses of the Pullman company.

• The railroad strike was broken and Debs was sent to jail.

• The Pullman company sent swarms of flying monkeys to attack the striking workers.