Progressive Movement and WW1

What do we call it when people walk out of their job and refuse to work?

• Boycott

• Strike

• Strikebreakers

• Walk out

Why would people go on strike?

• To demand better working conditions

• To demand for more money

• To demand to work less hours

• All of these are correct

Who founded the American Federation of Labor? (AFL)

• George Washington

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Andrew Carnegie

• Samuel Gompers

What is a boycott?

• When employees refuse to work.

• When customers refuse to buy a product from a certain company.

• When employers refuse to open their business

• When everyone just goes to work on a normal day.

Why was The Jungle an important book?

• It wasn't a book

• It showed the poor condition of factories

• It showed poor conditions of meat factories

• It showed the poor condition of tenements

Which law broke up big business trusts into small companies?

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Roosevelt Antitrust Act

• Trust Act

• Act of breaking up trusts

Writers that helped spread Progressive's ideas. Wrote about muck that was going on.

• Rakers of muck

• muckrakers

• raking up the muck writers

• journalist

What did the 17th Amendment do?

• Allowed the government to tax their income

• Allowed people to vote

• Allowed citizens the right to vote for their senators

• Allowed citizens to vote for their governors

Allied Powers (WWI)

• Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States

• Mexico

• Australia

• Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire

Luisitania

• British passenger liner sunk in 1915 that helped sway American opinion of the war.

• American citizens were lending money to the government to pay for the war.

• Agreement to stop fighting

• Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.