The length of the workers' days and the amount of days of the week they worked.
What is 10 hrs a day and 6 days a week.
100
Companies that joined together to form large groups are called....
What is a trust?
100
People who tried to find solutions to America's problems were called...
What is a Progressive?
100
Congress passed this law in 1894.
What is declaring Labor Day a national holiday?
100
Focusing the Americans' attention on dishonest public officials, this author called for change in this book.
What is Shame of the Cities?
200
Injuries, stale air, dark working conditions all are used to describe this.
What is working conditions in many factories?
200
Writers that helped spred the ideas of the Progressives were called...
What is a muckraker?
200
In 1886, this union became the first union to create better working conditions for American workers.
What is the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
200
He was a "square deal" for all Americans.
What is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
When workers refuse to work, staying away from their job until their demands are met by their employers, it is called a ...
What is a strike?
300
________created the AFL by organizing workers into skill groups, like carpenters and hat makers.
What is Samuel Gompers?
300
Trusts could do these 2 things:
What is 1) drive other companies out of business and 2) control the industry
300
Jane Addams started this to help immigrants and all those who were needy.
What is a settlement house?
400
A fire broke out in the factory and because doors were locked, workers were trapped. This occurred on March 25, 1911. Most of the 146 workers who dies were young women.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire.
400
People who replaced striking workers were called...
What is a strikebreaker?
400
She was the chief organizer of the United Mine Workers.
What is Mary "Mother" Jones?
400
Upton Sinclair wrote about the horrible conditions in the meat packing industry in this novel.
What is The Jungle?
400
This president made several important laws. He declared strikes and boycotts to be legal. He required all children to attend school. He supported the 8 hour work day. He put an end to child labor and passed laws requiring employers to help workers that were hurt on the job.
What is President Woodrow Wilson?
500
The number of children that worked in factories in America in 1900.
What is 2 million?
500
When people agree not to buy goods made by a certain company, it is called a ...
What is a boycott?
500
Because of this event, workers began to see better working conditions.
What is unions becoming stronger?
500
Ida Tarbell wrote about the founder of the Standard Oil Company and the danger of trusts in this book.
What is The History of the Standard Oil Company?
500
These Progressive women worked for the betterment of all people in prisons, during war times, and to treat mentally ill patients.
What is Julia Tutwiler, Clara Barton, and Dorothea Dix?