Labor Unions
True or False: Before Labor Unions, working conditions were very bad for factory workers.
True
What dos the word reform mean?
Change
Who was the first President to help a Labor Union?
Theodore Roosevelt
When workers stop working in order to force their employers to make changes.
Strike
People who hire other people to work for them.
Employers
Why do factory owners not like it when their employees go on strike?
They do not make any money when their workers are on strike.
What is the name for people who worked for reform?
Progressives
Who helped to start the NAACP to help stop discrimination against African Americans?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Units of land. One of these equals 4,840 square yards.
Acres
All types of business
Industry
Why were the factory workers afraid to ask their bosses for more pay?
They were afraid they would lose their jobs.
What is the name for the progressives who wrote about America's problems in books and magazines?
Muckrakers
Who helped to start the American Federation of Labor?
Samual Gompers
Looked at very carefully.
Inspected
Describe what a person's job is like. For example, pay, hours, and safety.
Working Conditions
What group of people did Lewis Hine try to help by taking pictures of them and publishing the pictures in books and magazines?
Children working in factories
Name two ways that African Americans were being discriminated against?
They couldn't find work, they couldn't vote and their children couldn't go to the same school as white children.
Who wrote a book about the problems with the meat industry?
Upton Sinclair
Organizations of workers who work together to get paid more money and to improve their jobs.
Labor Unions
Things we get from the earth, like water, trees, and animals.
Natural Resources
What were the three things that Labor Unions were mostly asking for?
Better salaries, shorter working days, safer working conditions.
What did the Pure Food and Drug Act do for our country?
It was a law that said that all food and all medicine must be made in clean factories.
Who wanted the government to do more to control big business?
Ida Tarbell
The act of treating a person unfairly because of his or her race, religion, or physical disability.
Discrimination
The act of protecting natural resources.
Conservation