Gilded Age Practice Quiz # 2

used to move, clean or fix large machines since they were small enough to fit between the parts

• Child Labor
• Free Enterprise System
• Robber Barons
• Social Darwinism

organized workers to act as a group not as an individual to leverage for better working conditions

• Union
• Robber Barons
• Captains of Industry
• Knights of Labor

In which industry did Andrew Carnegie earn his fortune?

• steel

• railroad

• gold

• oil

What is industrialization?

• The shift from human and animal power to machine power.

• The process of moving from machine power to animal power.

• The belief that the United States should expand across the North American continent.

• The use of hard working immigrants to mine natural resources.

What did Union workers do when negotiations with their employers failed?

• They used collective bargaining

• They went on strike

• They gave up and went home

• They set factories on fire

The man responsible for founding the biggest steel corporation in the US during the period 1865-1900 was

• JP Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

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

What union leader led the Pullman Strike?

• Andrew Carnagie

• Eugene V. Debs

• John D. Rockefeller

• J. Pierpont Morgan

Why did labor unions first form?

• To protect the rights of business owners
• To protect the rights of workers
• To protect the rights of customers
• Allof the above