The Great Upheaval
The city the Great Upheaval started in.
Where is Martinsburg West Virginia?
The act of withholding labor from management.
What is a strike?
The name of the first large labor organization.
What is the National Labor Union?
The important issues to workers were known as this.
What are Bread and Butter?
The philosopher who Socialists base their beliefs on.
Who is Karl Marx?
The date the Martinsburg Strike started.
What is July 16, 1877?
The act of withholding purchases from a factory.
What is a boycott?
Owners used these to share names of union workers with each other.
In 1900 he was known as the unofficial leader of the labor movement in America.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Socialists believe this should own all industries.
What is the Government?
The strikers of the Great Upheaval wanted this.
What are higher wages.
The act of breaking factory equipment.
What is sabotage?
The number of workers in local unions by 1866.
What is 200,000?
This Union was made of a group of smaller craft Unions in 1886.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
The founder of the American Railway Union in 1892.
The number of workers who went on strike during the Great Upheaval.
What is more than 100,000?
The American Age when strikes became more common.
What is the Gilded Age?
The name of the second large labor union in America.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Samuel Gompers was the President of the AF of L in every year except one, until his death in this year.
What is 1924?
Debs ran for President as the leader of this political party.
What is the Socialist Party?
The number of people killed during the strikes of the Great Upheaval.
What is over 100?
The name for people who worked in the place of strikers.
What is Scabs?
The peak membership of the Knights of Labor in 1886.
What is 750,000?
The number of strikes in America in the last 20 years of the 19th century.
What is 20,000?
The nickname of an anti-war movement in 1905.
What is the Wobblies?