Labor Unions
A group of workers joining together to demand better working conditions, higher pay, and improved safety conditions.
What are Labor Unions?
The cause of the Homestead Strike.
What is the mill planned to lower the workers pay?
Why were the factory exit doors locked? (bonus 100 if answer included why the doors were locked)
The goal of the Women's Suffrage movement.
What is giving women the right to vote?
The main reason Labor Unions were effective.
What are large groups of workers all demanding rights?
The industry that the Homestead workers worked in.
What is the steel industry?
The city in which the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire happened.
What is NYC?
Name two leaders of the suffrage movement.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul?
When workers refuse to work to pressure a company to meet their demands.
What is a strike?
The people brought in to protect the mill and new employees.
Who are guards? (Bonus 200 for Pinkerton agents)
What are young immigrant women?
Name one strategy suffragists used to fight for voting rights.
What are marches, petitions, lobbying Congress, protests, or picketing?
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
The results/impact of the Homestead Strike.
What is the strike failed, many workers lost their jobs, and unions lost support?
The three changes to workplace safety that became law as a result of the fire.
What are smoke alarms, sprinklers, and fire drills?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
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)
The person who owned Homestead Steel Works.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The crime that the owners of the factory tried for but not found guilty of.
What is manslaughter? (only 100 points for murder)
The full name of the NAWSA.
What is the National American Women's Suffrage Association?