C. 4 The Second Industrial Revolution

What caused a decline in working conditions in US industries in the late 1800s?

• A focus on high profits and efficiency

• Lack of labor available

• Child labor was outlawed

• People did not demand better working conditions.

Who was the leader of the Knights of Labor?

• Terrance Powderly

• Samuel Gompers

• Henry Bessemer

• Mary Harris Jones

What were union members fighting for in the Haymarket Riot?

• Higher pay

• better working conditions

• an 8 hour workday

• end child labor

What is a monopoly?

• a successful cooperation

• a self employed person

• a labor union

• total ownership of a product or service

What event weakened the Knights of Labor?

• Pullman Strike

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

• labor unions

How did he change the Knights of Labor?

• made it a trust

• made it a monopoly

• ended its secrecy

• only allowed skilled workers

Who was the business leader of the late 1800s that believed that industries should be owned and managed cooperatively by the workers?

• Leland Stanford

• Samuel Gompers

• Andrew Carnegie

• Frederick W. Taylor

Why were monopolies criticized?

• They only employed full time workers

• They promoted child labor

• They were run by unskilled workers only

• They raised prices and reduced the quality of products and services

What is a monopoly?

• total ownership of a product or service

• a business that focused on high profits and efficiency

• businesses that employed only those who did not belong to labor unions

• businesses that worked in secrecy

What is Collective Bargaining?

• a technique used by labor unions in which the employees work together for change

• Workers collected money to bribe officials

• a technique in which workers own stock in a company

• offering the best price for an item