WorksheetsLabor Conditions, Child Labor, and Unionization
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 28mins
what can be used to describe dangerous workplaces?
No regulations protecting workers from danger.
Strict safety standards enforced by law.
Comprehensive training programs for all employees.
Advanced protective equipment provided to every worker.
Which organization campaigned for tougher state and federal laws against the abuses of industrial child labor?
The National Child Labor Committee
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
Industrial Workers of the World
Who was identified as the National Child Labor Committee’s greatest publicist?
Lewis W. Hine
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
What did Lewis Hine do to expose the treatment of children?
Traveled across states capturing photos that exposed the treatment of children.
Served in Congress and wrote child labor legislation.
Organized nationwide factory strikes.
Published fictional stories about factory life.
What is unionization described as?
Workers join together and form unions to protect themselves and their needs.
Management forms committees to evaluate productivity.
Each worker negotiates individually for pay and hours.
Government agencies impose mandatory regulations without worker input.
What is a labor union, as defined on the slide?
An organization formed by workers who fight to improve pay, benefits, and working conditions.
A group of employers who set wages for an industry.
A government agency that enforces workplace safety laws.
A social club for employees to network after work.
What does collective bargaining do?
Negotiates with bosses for better conditions for everyone.
Disciplines workers who miss shifts.
Advertises company products to the public.
Calculates profits for shareholders.
Based on your notes why did people Unionize? select all reasons listed.
Shorter Workday
Minimum Wage or Livable Wage
Safe working conditions
Lunchbreaks
Protection from being fired
Based on the slide titled “Why did people Unionize? (Write down 3)”, select all reasons listed.
Lighter workloads
Medical Benefits
Retirement Benefits
A company owns all stores, townhouses, and property in a community and leases it to the workers. What term best matches this description?
Company town
Company store
Tenement district
Industrial park
The company would pay their workers in personally minted coins rather than pay workers their wage. What practice does this describe?
Scrip
Profit sharing bonuses
Union dues
Federal currency
Many perceived union workers were filled with Communists, Anarchists, and Socialists. Which statement best reflects this public sentiment?
Unionists were often associated with radical ideologies
Unionists were praised as nonpolitical civic leaders
Unionists were primarily management consultants
Unionists were viewed as neutral mediators
Which defines "Scab" correctly?
A worker who continues to work during a strike
A union leader who negotiates contracts
mange or a similar skin disease in animals.
a dry, rough protective crust that forms over a cut or wound during healing.
A person who is hired during or after a strike to make the strike ineffectual. Which role matches this description?
Strikebreaker
Shop steward
Arbitrator
Lobbyist
This Agency would be hired to disperse and break up unions, either through violence or threat of violence. Which group is identified here?
Pinkertons
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
U.S. Marshals Service
During the Homestead Strike, skilled union workers had secured favorable wages and work rules; Management sought to reduce wages and break the union's power. Who led management during this conflict?
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick
Samuel Gompers and Terence Powderly
John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan
Eugene V. Debs and Mother Jones
What was the cause of the Johnstown Flood?
Poor maintenance of a dam by the South Fork Hunting & Fishing Club
Unprecedented hurricane storm surge
Poor maintenance of a dam by Andrew Carnegie & Henry Frick
Renovations being conducted by the South Fork Hunting & Fishing Club
Following the Gilded Age, the period of US history between the years of the 1890s to the 1920s was known as what?
The Reconstruction Era
The Progressive Era
The Roaring Twenties
The New Deal Era
Progressives wanted to progress society by using the government for what kind of changes?
Foreign expansion and military campaigns
Tax cuts and deregulation
Social and political reforms
Isolation from world affairs
Who were described as writers and journalists who tried to expose corruption in society, government, or business?
Robber barons
Muckrakers
Populists
Civil servants
Which author wrote a fiction book to bring awareness to the dreadful lives of workers in the meatpacking industry?
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Frank Norris
Which federal laws were a result of the book "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
Sherman Antitrust Act and Clayton Act
Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
Hepburn Act and Elkins Act
Federal Reserve Act and FTC Act
Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal is known as the 3 C’s. Which set lists them correctly?
Currency, Credit, and Consumer Protection,
Consumer Protection, Control of Corporations, and Conservation
Courts, Congress, and Constitution
Competition, Capitalism, and Control of Corporations
Which agency is in charge of inspecting all poultry, beef, and some egg products?
FDA
USDA
CDC
EPA
According to the responsibilities listed, which agency is in charge of food and drugs?
USDA
EPA
FDA
NIH
Identify the journalist described as a Danish American who wrote about the conditions of the slums of the Lower East Side of New York.
Jacob Riis
Ida B. Wells
Ida Tarbell
Henry George
In 1895, who was brought to New York City to help with the sanitation problem?
Robert Moses
Colonel George Waring Jr
Theodore Roosevelt
Andrew Carnegie
The tragedy at the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Shirtwaist Factory would later result in the fire and safety standards we uphold today.
(a)
Ida B. Wells: She was an African American ________ and ________.
journalist and suffragist
lawyer and senator
teacher and industrialist
nurse and abolitionist
Ida B. Wells: She became an activist writing a book about the horrors of which practice in the South?
Lynching
Temperance enforcement
Child labor
Environmental degradation
Ida Tarbell: Her article helped break up Rockefeller’s which company?
Standard Oil Company
U.S. Steel
American Tobacco Company
General Electric
Carry A. Nation: She is described as a suffragist and what kind of activist?
Anti-drinking activist
Anti-war activist
Pro-immigration activist
Labor union activist
Who was the Suffragist who would become famous for speaking against drinking and smoking, also smashing saloons and getting jailed often.
Cary A. Nation
Ida Tarbell
Ida B. Wells.
Margaret Sanger
According to your notes what is a Suffragist?
Someone who fought to have the vote expanded to count more people, especially women
A person who opposed voting rights for all groups
A political party leader during elections
A judge who certified election results
NACW: In 1896, who formed the organization to fight the negative image of black women?
Middle class African American women
Immigrant laborers
Southern planters
Federal legislators
Name one reason given during the early 20th century forbidding women to votes:
Outside of African Americans, who did the new wave of the KKK target?
What ethnic group was the only one to have a law passed excluding them and preventing them from immigrating to the US?
(a)
What do you call the hatred or fear of immigration or people from other countries?
(a)
What is the name of the science that believed that they could manipulate and use genetics to improve the health and quality of a human population? It believed strongly that some people were both mentally and physically superior to others.
(a)
By 1968, what percentage of the Puerto Rican Population was forcefully sterilized
(a)
