Famous in the 19th century
Labor Problems
Railroads
19th Century Acts
100
This man wrote the two famous novels White Fang and Call of the wild
Who is Jack London
100
It was the first national labor federation in the United States. Founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1873.
What is the National Labor Union
100
The means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on tracks.
What is a railroad
100
This act is known as the labor's Magna Carta
What is The Clayton Act
200
This man is a author and humorist. Known for his most famous books Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Who is Mark Twain
200
It was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s.
What is the Knights of Labor
200
The economic depression in the 1870's lead to this in the 14th of July 1877 because of high demand for travel.
What is the Great Railroad Strike
200
This act requires the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption.
What is The Meat Inspection Act
300
The highlight of his career was when he invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
300
This group was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in 1886.
What is the American Federation of Labor
300
This was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States 1894. It began in the town of Pullman, Illinois when approximately 3,000 employees began a strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
What is The Pullman Strike
300
This act provided for the redemption of United States paper currency, known colloquially as greenbacks, in gold, beginning in 1879.
What is the Resumption Act
400
One of the most beneficial inventions in history (the light bulb) was made by this man.
Who is Thomas Edison
400
This group was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology that was active between 1874 and 1884. Its name referred to paper money, or "greenbacks," that had been issued during the American Civil War and afterward.
What is The Greenback Labor party
400
This railroad operates North America's premier railroad franchise, covering 23 states in the western two-thirds of the United States.
What is The Union Pacific Railroad
400
A federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. It authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.
What is the Elkins Act
500
This man is considered to be the greatest president we ever had as a nation, he was assassinated in April of 1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
500
This refers to the practice of politicians referencing the blood of martyrs or heroes to criticize opponents.
What is "The waving of the Bloody Shirt"
500
The former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America.
What is The Central Pacific Railroad
500
This s a United States federal law which amended the Post Office Act and made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail, including contraceptive devices and information.
What is the Comstock law