Labor History Quiz

What event in 1877 marked the first national labor walkout in the United States?

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Great Railroad Strike

• The Haymarket Affair

• The Pullman Strike

What were the effects of the Great Railroad Strike? (Name and explain at least two different examples)

Answer explanation

Strong sense of solidarity among workers and Republican party, federal troops to protect property and industrial companies, destruction of property by workers, fatal violence amongst militia and workers, and/or effective strikes that impacted major cities (such as Chicago and St Louis)

What did the Social Gospel movement emphasize?

• Individual wealth

• Equalization of wealth and power

• Military strength

• Technological innovation

Which of the following did the Social Gospel movement not urge the Protestant church to support?

• The labor movement

• The wealthy capitalists

• The end of child labor

• The poor

Employers used the ​ (a)   to paint the labor movement as a dangerous and un-American force, controlled by violent and radical anarchists. Most of the eight accused were ​ (b)   and fueled negative sentiment about this group.

• Haymarket affair
• foreign-born
• single tax
• Knights of Labor
• Great Railroad Strike
• American-born
• Social Gospel