5A. Labor Conditions, Child Labor, and Labor Unions

Which characteristics best describe labor conditions for workers during the Gilded Age?

(Select the 4 correct answers)

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#Gilded Age-Labor Conditions

Why was the use of child labor alarming to most during the Gilded Age? Explain your answer.

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#Gilded Age-Labor Conditions

Which claim is BEST supported by the excerpt?

• The Knights of Labor mobilized workers to fight

  for better benefits and safe working conditions.

• Women led the labor union movement in the

  United States.

• Railroad workers benefitted the most from the

  Knights of Labor.

• Labor unions primarily protected business

  owners and the economic elite.

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#Gilded Age-Labor Unions

Why were unions formed during the Gilded Age, and how did they accomplish their goals? Explain your answer.

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#Gilded Age-Labor Unions

​ (a)   was used to perform some of

the most dangerous jobs in American factories.

• Child Labor
• Robber Barons
• Philanthropist
• Robber Baron
• Entrepreneur

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#Gilded Age-Child Labor

While entrepreneurs like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller grew wealthy,

​ (a)   for workers was deplorable.

• Labor Conditions
• Immigrants
• Urbanization
• Electircity (light bulb)

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#Gilded Age-Labor Conditions

A ​ (a)   is when a business controls all of the

supply of products or services of an industry.

• monopoly
• franchise
• nationalized
• cottage industry

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#Gilded Age-monopolies

The ​ (a)   allowed the federal

government to break up monopolies.

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act

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#Gilded Age-Sherman Antitrust Act

Using the Visual Glossary, explain Labor Unions.

(Must have at least 5 things you see from the Vissual Glossary.)

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#Gilded Age-Labor Unions

Businesses became wealthy, and some corrupt government officials supported business first policies.

(a)  

• Gilded Age
• Progressive Era
• Civil Rights Era
• Roaring Twenties

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#Gilded Age-Gilded Age Characteristics