Reasons needed to improve

Question 1

Haymarket Riot (May 4, 1886)

Answer 1

rally for workers turned into a riot b/c someone threw a bomb at the police. 8 people died. No evidence but 8 radical labor activists were arrested. Caused xenophobia

Question 2

Homestead Strike (July 1892)

Answer 2

Carnegie versus his steel workers. Had to bring 8,500 soldiers of the national guard to end it. It was a complete working lockout

Question 3

Pullman Strike (May 1894)

Answer 3

Rail road strike, President Cleveland sent federal troops to enforce court order to stop it.

Question 4

Triangle Shirtwaist factory Cause

Answer 4

Cigarette fell into a bundle of fabric, no fire escapes and no safety measures led to the women stuck on the burning floors

Question 5

Triangle Shirtwaist effects

Answer 5

Pushed for safer working conditions, the push caused things like OSHA to actually protect the workers.

Question 6

Muckrakers

Answer 6

Journalists who wrote on the issues in the economy and the painful working conditions

Question 6

The Jungle

Answer 6

investigated the conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry. (Rats, no handwashing, disease, waste used.)

Question 7

How the other half lives

Answer 7

Showed the issues in tenements (Cramped, unsanitary, homeless children, fire hazards)

Question 8

Jim Crow laws

Answer 8

Became more aggressive through the passing of Plessy V. Ferguson.

Question 9

Urban issues

Answer 9

lack of sanitation, grabage was uncollected, air and water pollution, crimes, fires, wage gap, corruption