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WorksheetsUSA Trade Unions
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
Pick 2 factors that influenced trade union and labour rights
Leadership of the trade unions
Trade union membership
Division between skilled and unskilled workers
The weather
What term is used to describe a workplace that is dominated by one trade union that all workers are obliged to join?
Open door policy
Closed door union
Closed shop
Trade guild
Name the person who first promoted the idea of working class solidarity.
William Z Foster
Uriah Smith Stephens
Martin L Willard
William H Sylvis
What year did the National Labor Union form?
1867
1888
1866
1901
What was the "contract system?"
Where employees could be hired and laid off in slack periods
Where employees had to sign a contract to say they would not join a trade union
Where employees could only work if they had a contract
Where employers could not lay off employees who had contracts
What trade union was founded by Uriah Smith Stevens in 1869?
AFL
Knights of Labor
The Wobblies
The Molly Maguires
Tick any correct statement
AFL stands for the American Federation of Labor
The AFL leader was Samuel Gompers
They were known as the Wobblies
By 1914, the AFL had over 2 million members
The Industrial Workers of the World were known as "The (a) "
Pick any country defined as a country of origin for "old immigrants."
Scandinavia
Ireland
Japan
Germany
Tick any of the countries/regions defined as being a country of origin for "new immigrants."
Ireland
England
China
Eastern Europe
Name the trade union set up in 1873 by Irish immigrant miners
The Molly Malones
The Molly Coddles
The Maggie Maguires
The Molly Maguires
Government attitudes towards trade unions and labour rights in the Gilded Age were...
(a)
Name any companies that monopolised industry in the period
Rockerfeller
Trump
Carnegie
Ford
The Lochner v New York ruling said what?
That workers were entitled to a maximum 10 hour working day
That workers should work no more than 8 hours in a day
That it was unconstitutional to limit the hours that worker could work in a day
That the 14th amendment meant that workers could work for 8 hours maximum
Tick all the correct statements
the Homestead Strike took place in 1893
the Homestead Strike took place in 1892
the Homestead Strike was against the Carnegie Steel Company
Henry Frick was killed during the violence that erupted as a result of the Homestead Strike
Which year was the Pullman Strike?
1894
1895
1896
1897
What prompted the Pullman Strike? Tick all that apply
The company locked out the workers
The company cut wages
The company imposed a 12 hour working day
The company put rents up in its workers' houses
Tick all the correct statements
The Pullman Strike was a turning point because it was the first time federal intervention was used to stop it
Grover Cleveland was president at the time of the Pullman Strike
The leader of the trade union involved in the Pullman Strike was Eugene Debs
Labor Day was set up to recognise the efforts of workers as a result of the Pullman Strike
What year was the Haymarket Affair?
1901
1897
1915
1886
What was the name of the first black trade union that formed in 1869?
National Labor Union for Negroes
The Harlem Hellfighters
National Negro Labor Union
National Labor Union
