Working Conditions
The average number of working hours each day.
What is 10-12 hours per day?
A labor union is...
What is a group of laborers who work to improve working conditions and increase pay?
A riot that took place at Carnegie's steel mill
What is the Homestead Riot?
The leader of the Knights of Labor
Who is Terrence V. Powderly?
The Knights of Labor membership included these people, not allowed to join other labor unions.
Who are women, immigrants, African Americans, and unskilled workers?
The number of days a week people worked
What is 6 days?
Collective bargaining is...
What are representatives chosen by a labor to negotiate with owners for better working conditions, shorter hours, and better pay?
A riot that took place in Chicago
What is the Haymarket Square riot?
The leader of the AFL
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Two causes of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. (You must go deeper than a match/cigar/spark in the trash)
What is the strike that failed when workers tried to fight for safer working conditions?
What are blocked/locked exits?
What are firetruck ladders that couldn't reach to the 9th floor??
What is an unconnected water hose and not enough water buckets?
The pay for women.
What is half as much as the wages for a man?
A labor union for unskilled workers
What is the Knights of Labor?
A cause of the Pullman Strike and a result
Cause: What is George Pullman cutting wages?
Effect: What is $80 million in damage? What is a nationwide boycott of railway workers? What is the federal government getting involved because of the mail?
A woman who fought for the rights of working people
Who is Mary Harris "Mother" Jones?
Three effects of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire.
What are 146 dead?
What are improved safety features, such as exits that open outward, safety inspections, sprinkler systems, and improved fire escapes?
The reason employers liked to hire children
What is cheap labor (1/4 the cost of a man)?
A labor union for skilled workers (complete name).
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
A cause of the Haymarket Square riot and an effect
Cause: What is fighting for an 8-hour work day? What is someone killed by the police?
Effect: What is violence that caused people to feel negative about labor unions?
What is 7 police officers died?
The leader of the American Railway Union (ARU) who went to prison after the Pullman strike
Who is Eugene Debs?
Explain how the Pullman Strike was both a strike and a boycott.
What is workers refusing to work at the Pullman Car Company because they wanted higher wages (a strike)? What is over 100,000 railway workers across the country refusing to handle trains with Pullman cars (a boycott)?
3 problems coal miners faced
What is breathing in coal dust that causes lung disease?
What are cave-ins?
What are explosions and flooding?
What is being crushed?
3 ways labor unions impacted Americans
What is fighting for better pay, better working conditions, shorter hours, and no child labor?
Name the chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and list one thing he did that angered workers. Name 2 things he did to prevent a labor union from forming.
Who is Henry Frick? What is cutting wages and increasing hours? What is refusing to negotiate? What is sending in armed guards to protect the strikebreakers?
Provide 2 sentences of background information about Mother Jones AND Samuel Gompers.
Mother Jones: Who lost her husband and children to yellow fever? Who lost her business in the Great Chicago Fire? Who fought to end child labor?
Samuel Gompers: Who was a Jewish immigrant? Who began working in a cigar factory at the age of 10? Who led the Cigar Makers Union? Who became the leader of the American Federation of Labor?
Compare and contrast the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor (1 similarity and 1 difference)
Difference: What are unskilled workers (Knights) vs. skilled laborers (AFL)?
Similarity: What are fighting for better working conditions, better wages, and shorter hours?