In 1887, what had been set up to regulate the railroad industry. It was not effective.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
100
What is the term for negotiations between labor and management
What is collective bargaining
100
In this event, several people were killed when a bomb exploded at a demonstration in support of striking workers.
What is The Haymarket Affair in 1886
100
Teddy Roosevelt supported progressive policies because he wanted to see that the common people received what he called what?
What is a Square Deal
200
What kind of commission was set up by President Theodore Roosevelt to resolve a conflict between striking mine workers and mine owners?
What is an arbitration commission
200
Which union enjoyed early success but declined after the failure of a series of strikes?
What is Knights of Labor
200
What is the term for a union of all workers, both skilled and unskilled in a single industry.
What is industrial unionism
200
Who gained fame as an organizer for the United Mine Workers?
Who is Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones
200
President Roosevelt had the government sue harmful trusts under what law?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
300
What type of union is for skilled workers only?
What is a craft union
300
What two things did Samuel Gompers use to win higher wages and shorter workweeks.
What is strikes and collective bargaining
300
In 1905, a union of radicals and socialists was formed called what?
What is the Industrial Workers of the World or the Wobblies.
300
Who was involved in an 1894 strike that turned violent when federal troops were called out to break the strike.
Who are the Pullman Company, Eugene Debs and his American Railway Union
300
Which law strictly limited the distribution of free railroad passes, a common form of bribery.
What is the Hepburn Act of 1906
400
What were the worst places to work, because they had especially harsh conditions.
What is sweatshops
400
The National Labor Union persuaded Congress to legalize what for government workers in 1868?
What is an eight hour workday
400
What is the term for an economic and political system where the workers control the factories or farmland, instead of their bosses.
What is socialism
400
What did President Rutherford B. Hayes do to end a strike by workers for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad?
What is sent in federal troops
400
Define arbitration
What is the settling of disputes (especially labor disputes) between two parties by an impartial third party
500
What are 4 things employees of the time were not entitled to?
What is vacation time, sick leave,
500
Define consolidation
What is to bring together into a single or unified whole
500
Who were two important labor leaders in the late 1800's?
One formed the American Railway Union and the other formed the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
Who are Eugene V. Debs and Samuel Gompers
500
In 1892, who fought a battle at Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, that left dead on both sides.
What is steel workers and Pinkerton Guards
500
Define progressive
What is favoring progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to maintaining things as they are