Work & Labor
This is when workers stop working to protest unfair wages or conditions.
What is a strike?
A policy of not taking sides in a war.
What is neutrality?
Money or assets used to start or grow a business.
What is capital?
A person who publicly supports or argues for a cause.
What is an advocate?
Areas of the countryside with farms and small towns.
What is rural?
A group of workers that negotiates for better wages and conditions.
What is a labor union?
The unfair treatment of people based on race, gender, or religion.
What is discrimination?
Having a variety of industries to reduce economic risk.
What is diversified?
To settle a dispute by having an impartial person decide.
What is arbitrate?
The process of focusing on a specific skill or trade to increase efficiency.
What is specialization?
The ability to borrow money and pay it back later.
What is credit?
To prepare people and resources for war or protest.
What is mobilize?
Oil and gas drilling in unproven areas.
What is wildcat?
Making or doing something creatively without a set plan.
What is improvisation?
To murder a political or important leader.
What is assassinate?
The process of workers negotiating with employers for better conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
An agreement to stop fighting a war temporarily.
What is an armistice?
An early model of a product used for testing.
What is a prototype?
A time of renewed interest in learning, arts, and culture.
What is a renaissance?
When a school or institution meets official standards.
What is accreditation?
This movement aimed to improve roads in Kansas.
What was the Good Roads Movement?
This group of women supported striking miners in Kansas by marching in protest for better working conditions.
Who were the Amazon Army?
This Kansas journalist and politician opposed the influence of the Ku Klux Klan in the state.
Who was William Allen White?
This Kansas-based court was created to settle labor disputes between workers and employers.
What was the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations?
This cultural movement of the 1920s celebrated African American music, literature, and art, with Kansas playing a role in its development.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?