Labor Unions
One GOAL of labor unions
What are improved wages, hours, or working conditions?
Asian immigrants were treated ____ than European immigrants.
What is Worse?
Journalists who exposed corruption.
What are muckrackers?
When workers came together to negotiate for changes in their workforce
What is collective bargaining?
Immigration station for Europeans
What is Ellis Island?
Book that exposed the unsanitary meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle? (Bonus 100 if you can name the author)
The strike caused by Carnegie lowering wages & not allowing negotiation
What is the Homestead Strike?
Discrimination in favor of native-born Americans
What is Nativism?
The name of the famous setttlement house created by Jane Addams.
What is Hull House?
Led to the decline of the Knights of Labor. Americans began associating unions with violence
What is the Haymarket Riot?
The famous Tammany Hall political machine was led by _____.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
The 2 acts put in place after "The Jungle" was published.
What are the Pure Food and Drug Act & the Meat Inspection Act?
Bosses cut wages then refused to meet with workers leading to those workers going on strike.
What is the Pullman Strike?
Law that banned Chinese immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Lewis Hine exposing the horrors of child labor led to this.
What is the Keating Owens Act?