Unit 3: Quiz 1: Gilded to Labor Fights

What was the Gilded Age?

• A time when people focused on adding gold leaf and gold-plated exteriors to their furniture and homes
• A time when people focused on "progress" solutions to major societal problems.
• A time of huge disparities (differences) in wealth, corruption in government, and laissez faire policies.
• A time of communist revolution when workers overthrew the robber barons.

What means "using your political position to enrich yourself, or engage in illegal activities like patronage or taking bribes?

• Party Machine
• Corruption
• Social Darwinism
• Laissez Faire Capitalism

What term applied to government's lack of oversight of business, and means to keep "hands off," or, "let it operate?"

• Party Machine
• Corruption
• Social Darwinism
• Laissez Faire Capitalism

What word best applies to a business that controls an entire market, and ran competitors out of the market by undercutting prices, or buying out competitors?

• Monopoly
• Corruption
• Laissez Faire Capitalism
• Philanthropy

Which word did NOT apply or relate to the Big Bad Business Boys of the Gilded Age in some way?

• Philanthropy
• Captain of Industry
• Robber Baron
• Communist

What idea was used by social scientists, politicians, and robber barons alike as a so called "scientific" justification for NOT helping to regulate business, NOT stopping monopolies, or NOT making laws to help the poor or working class?

• Social Darwinism
• Evolution
• Communism
• Gospel of Wealth

What is NOT a benefit of labor unions?

• Help workers get better pay, working conditions, hours, and benefits.
• Help lobby government to make better laws for workers.
• Help collectively bargain with employers and organize strikes.
• Help continue child labor.

Which group of workers may be LESS willing seek the help of a labor union to bargain on their behalf?

• Skilled Laborers
• Unskilled Laborers
• Workers Lacking Benefits
• Workers Making Low Wages

Which labor union - when it started - allowed only skilled workers, was led by Samuel Gompers, and by 1900 had 500,000 members. This group is still in existence, but has since merged with another union called the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and the CIO was a group comprised of mostly unskilled laborers.

• Knights of Labor
• AFL - American Federation of Labor
• NLU - National Labor Union
• United Steel Workers

As seen in the Homestead Steel Strike, and the Pullman Railcar strike, what was usually the result of the labor battle?

• Management loses out to the labor unions and caves by giving higher wages.
• Labor Unions get better working conditions and hours for their employees.
• Government comes in on the side of workers and forces management to compromise.
• Government refused to intervene, and workers had to go back to work.