Labor Unions
What is the name for a group of workers who join together to get better wages, hours, benefits etc.?
What is a union
What is the name for when workers walk off the job and refuse to work to get better wages and benefits?
What is a strike
The immigrants who arrived before 1880 that were from Northwestern Europe were called_________ __________.
What is Old Immigration
What is the name for a city that experiences rapid growth and the problems that come with that?
What is urbanization
What is the term used to describe people coming into the country?
What is immigration
Name three tactics used by management.
What is
1. Yellow Dog Contract
2. Blacklist
3. Lockout
4. Open Shop
True or False: The American public supported unions in the late 1800's because there was little violence involved.
What is False the public associated labor unions with violence
The immigrants who arrived between 1880-1924 and were from Southeastern Europe were known as ________________.
What is New Immigrants
Who was the head of the most famous Tammany Hall political machine?
Who is William Marcy "Boss" Tweed
What is the term used to describe people who are leaving a country?
What is emigration
Name three tactics of Labor Unions?
What is
1.Strike
2. Boycott
3. Collective Bargaining
4. Closed Shop
What is the French term that means hands off businesses by the government?
What is Laissez-faire
What was the name of the immigrant processing station located in New York Harbor?
What is Ellis Island
What was built in many growing cities to alleviate the congestion and traffic problems?
What is subwats
What is the name for a person who was born in the United States?
What is a nativist
What is the name of the labor union led by Samuel Gompers that was made up of only skilled workers and did not include women and African Americans?
What is the American Federation of Labor AFL
What was the name of the strike at Carnegie Steel mill outside of Pittsburg where workers walked off the job and barricaded the factory then Pinkerton Guards were called in and opened fire on the workers?
What is the Homestead Strike
What is the name for the immigrant processing station in San Francisco Bay? This station mostly handled Asian immigrants.
What is Angel Island
What was used to make the drinking water safer in the cities?
What is filtration and adding chloride to the wter
The invention of steel made what possible to build in the growing cities?
What is skyscapers
What was the name of the labor union led by Terence Powderly that allowed skilled and unskilled laborers including African Americans, women and rural farm workers?
What is the Knights of Labor
What is the name of the strike in Chicago by the Knights of Labor where a bomb went off killing several policemen?
What is the Haymarket Strike
What was the name of the act passed by Congress that did not allow Chinese laborers to enter the United States?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
How did political machines get votes from the newly arriving immigrants?
What is political machines did the immigrants favors
What was the name of the agreement between Japan and the United States the allowed Japanese students to attend schools if they limited immigration into the U.S.?
What is the "Gentlemens Agreement"