Labor Unions
Homestead Strike
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Women's Suffrage
100

A group of workers joining together to demand better working conditions, higher pay, and improved safety conditions.

What are Labor Unions?

100

The cause of the Homestead Strike. 

What is the mill planned to lower the workers pay?

100
The reason workers were trapped in the building.

Why were the factory exit doors locked? (bonus 100 if answer included why the doors were locked)

100

The goal of the Women's Suffrage movement.

What is giving women the right to vote?

200

The main reason Labor Unions were effective.

What are large groups of workers all demanding rights?

200

The industry that the Homestead workers worked in.

What is the steel industry?

200

The city in which the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire happened.

What is NYC?

200

Name two leaders of the suffrage movement.

Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul?

300

When workers refuse to work to pressure a company to meet their demands.

What is a strike?

300

The people brought in to protect the mill and new employees.

Who are guards? (Bonus 200 for Pinkerton agents)

300
The group of people mainly working in the factory.

What are young immigrant women?

300

Name one strategy suffragists used to fight for voting rights.

What are marches, petitions, lobbying Congress, protests, or picketing?

400

When workers march outside a workplace with signs to protest and get public attention.

What is a picket line? (protest/strike only gets half points

400

The results/impact of the Homestead Strike.

What is the strike failed, many workers lost their jobs, and unions lost support?

400

The three changes to workplace safety that became law as a result of the fire. 

What are smoke alarms, sprinklers, and fire drills?

400

The amendment that gave women the right to vote.

What is the 19th amendment?

500

The percent of workers that belong to labor unions today. 

Twelve percent. (Has to be within 5% to get full credit, within 10% for half)

500

The person who owned Homestead Steel Works.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

500

The crime that the owners of the factory tried for but not found guilty of.

What is manslaughter? (only 100 points for murder)

500

The full name of the NAWSA.

What is the National American Women's Suffrage Association?