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WorksheetsLabor Unions Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 13mins
An organization of workers dedicated to protecting members' interests and improving wages, hours and working conditions for all. PG. 84
Labor Union
Workers Rights
Worker Strikes
Collective Bargaining
The negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees pg. 91
Labor Unions
Workers Rights
Worker Strikes
Collective Bargaining
Facing 12-hour work days and wage cuts resulting from the depressed economy, factory workers at the Palace Car Company walked out in protest. The strike ended when President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago on July 6, 1894. pg. 89
The Pullman Strike
Great Anthracite Coal Strike
Great Southwest Railroad Strike
Steel Strike of 1919
What was the first nationwide industrial union? pg. 84-85
the Knights of Labor
the AFL
the Pinkertons
the Anarchists
Which incident was a result of a Chicago labor disturbance on May 4, 1886, in which people were killed by a bomb thrown during a demonstration? pg. 88
the Great Railroad Strike
the Haymarket Square Riot
the Homestead Strike
the Pullman Strike
What was the main cause of the Pullman Strike? pg. 89
Cut wages
Pullman wouldn't tell the workers the Wifi password
Raised rent prices
Pullman wouldn't pay for electricity in worker's homes
Most strikes by unions in the late 1800s were unsuccessful mainly because? Pg. 89
unions were unconstitutional
strikes had never been used before to settle labor issues
The Public didn't support Labor Unions because they were violent
strikers failed to use militant tactics
The Homestead Strike was a protest- pg. 88
in Colorado demanding safer working conditions.
Chicago demanding an eight-hour workday.
against the Pullman Palace Car Company’s unsafe working conditions
against the Carnegie Steel Company’s plan to cut jobs.
List at least 3 Tactics of Labor Unions(Their advantages and things they did to get rights and privileges for workers) pg.91
