Industrial Age Lesson 3 Vocab

Who was the efficiency engineer that encouraged employers to view workers as interchangeable parts of the production process?

• Terence V. Powderly

• Samuel Gompers

• Frederick W. Taylor

• Mary Harris Jones

Which labor union started in the 1870s as a secret society and pushed for 8-hour workdays, equal pay, and an end to child labor?

• American Federation of Labor

• Knights of Labor

• Pullman Strike

• Homestead Strike

Who became the leader of the Knights of Labor in 1879 and made it the first true national labor union?

• Samuel Gompers

• Frederick W. Taylor

• Terence V. Powderly

• Mary Harris Jones

What was the American Federation of Labor known for?

• Organizing individual national unions and limiting membership to skilled workers

• Ending child labor

• Promoting collective bargaining

• Leading the Pullman Strike

Who was the leader of the American Federation of Labor?

• Terence V. Powderly

• Samuel Gompers

• Frederick W. Taylor

• Mary Harris Jones

What is collective bargaining?

• A method to end child labor

• A negotiation process between workers and management

• A type of labor strike

• A secret society of workers

Who was an Irish immigrant that worked to make better conditions for miners?

• Frederick W. Taylor

• Mary Harris Jones

• Samuel Gompers

• Terence V. Powderly

What was the Haymarket riot?

• A railroad strike

• A riot in Chicago over the deaths of two strikers

• A labor union meeting

• A negotiation between workers and management

Where did the Homestead Strike occur?

• At a railroad company

• At Carnegie's steel mill

• In a coal mine

• In a textile factory

What ended the Pullman Strike?

• A negotiation between workers and management

• The intervention of President Cleveland with federal troops

• The formation of a new labor union

• The death of a union leader