History Unit 11 The Organized Labor Movement

Question 0

What was the movement a shift from

Answer 0

Skilled to unskilled labor
Long hours, low pay, no sense of achievement
Work force now included women and children

Question 1

When did the Organized Labor Movement take place

Answer 1

Late 19th century

Question 2

Labor unions

Answer 2

Used strikes to improve pay and working conditions

Unions include knights of labor, American federation of labor, American railway union, industrial workers of the works

Question 3

Many unions included elements if socialism

Answer 3

Capitalism widens the gap between the rich and poor
Socialists demanded that wealth be divided evenly
Power for the workers

Question 4

Who ridiculed the unions

Answer 4

Industrialists

Question 5

Haymarket Square Riot

Answer 5

Chicago 1886
Protestors wanted an 8 hour work day
Included anarchists, threw bombs at policemen, 11 killed
Lead to public distrust of unions

Question 6

Pullman Strike

Answer 6

Strike by American railway union
Lead by socialist Eugene debs
Wages cut rents in company town were constant
300,000 workers nationwide refuse to handle Pullman cars
Pres. Grover Cleveland deploys 12,000 troops to end the strike
Because of the Mail

Question 7

Government response to unions

Answer 7

Continually rules against unions
Force used to end strikes
Tension between workers and industrialists continues into the 20th century
Gov will gradually begin to side w workers