The Labor Movement Vocabulary

Which one of the choices below is Not one of the new problems that workers faced?

• Long Hours

• Low Wages

• Dangerous Conditions

• Paid Vacation Leave

______________ were organizations that workers formed to improve their conditions. They negotiated with business owners for higher wages, fewer hours, and better working conditions.

• Student Unions

• Labor Unions

• Super Friends

• Communists

_____________________ were founded by Terrace Powderly/included skilled and unskilled workers/ Women and minorities were welcomed as members. This organization collapsed after the Haymarket Riot.

• Cash Money Records

• American Federation of Labor

• Knights of Labor

• Grange

______________________ a federation of different unions of skilled workers such as carpenters and shoemakers)/led by Samuel Gompers/ focused on improving conditions and raising wages/hostile to immigration/most member unions refused to women or African Americans

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

• Demon Slayers

• United Auto Workers

___________________after an explosion during a demonstration in the Haymarket Square, labor leaders were arrested and put on trial. Four were hanged. In the public mind. The labor movement became associated with violence and anarchism.

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Strike

• SWG Strike

_____________________ Carnegie and Frick decided to break the union and locked out workers from Homestead Steelworks when they failed to negotiate a new contract. Workers went on strike, surrounded the mill with picket lines, and defeated pickekertons in a pitched battle. The state militia was called to protect the plant, and Frick sent in strikebreakers. Workers gave in, ending unionization in steel mills.

• Pullman Strike

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

• SAG Strike

___________workers went on strike when Pullman lowered wages but not prices in his company town. Eugene Deb's. American Railway union joined in sympathy and would not work on Pullman cars. brining trains in the west to a standstill. President Clevland sent in Federal troops to end the strike.

• Pullman Strike

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

• Fall of Wall Maria

Match the following

• Socialism

• Ideology in favor of government ownership of the means of production to improve

• Anarchism

• A radical political theory opposing all forms of government in favor of self-governing

• Social Darwinism

• Belief that humans like other forms of life, compete for survival and that those who are naturally superior will meet the greatest success

• Capitalism

• Ideology calling for a revolution by workers(proletariat) to overthrow the bourgeoisie and establish a classless society: led to planned economy in which government officials ("planners") controlled production

• Communism

• A system of beliefs about society and government

(a)   built the Florida East Coast Railroad to help develop Florida.

What act regulated the railroads in order to prevent unfair practices by the railroads?

• Sherman Anti-Trust

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Second Industrial Revolution

• Homestead Act