Labor Unions
What organizations fight for better working conditions?
Labor Unions
What type of people exposed the horrible working conditions that workers had to endure?
Muckrakers
What was the Women's Suffrage Movement's goal?
Women's right to vote
What type of labor forced children as young as five to work in factories?
Child Labor
What is the term for refusing to buy or pay for particular products or services in hopes of forcing producers to adjust their policies or actions?
Boycott
What strategy did labor unions mainly use to get their demands met?
Strikes
What muckraker exposed the meatpacking industry?
Upton Sinclair
What was the Temperance Movement's goal?
If children are working in factories what are they not doing?
Going to school
What is the term for employers not allowing employees to return to work?
Lockouts
Name at least 3 different working conditions.
Better pay, less hours, no child labor, safer working conditions
What muckraker took pictures of child labor in factories?
Lewis Hines
What amendment banned alcohol?
Eighteenth
What was the name of the riot where police were killed and the labor unions were blamed?
Haymarket
What era marked reforms in business, politics and society?
Progressive
What labor union wanted equal pay for equal work and a eight hour workday?
Knights of Labor
What muckraker exposed political corruption in St. Louis and other cities?
Lincoln Steffens
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th amendment
What union leader ran for president?
Eugene Debs
What group of Irish immigrants that were coal miners kidnapped and murdered to met their demands of more pay?
Molly Maguires
What labor union was started by Jewish-American Samuel Gompers?
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
What women exposed the working conditions of the Standard Oil company?
Ida Tarbell
Carrie Nation
What is the process through which employees negotiate as a united group rather than individuals?
Collective bargaining
What is a workplace in which employers hired only union members?
Closed shop