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Question 1

What is a Labor Union?

Answer 1

An organization formed by workers in order for better workers rights.

Question 2

What might a union want?

Answer 2

better working conditions, better pay, better benefits.

Question 3

What can a union do if their demands are not met?

Answer 3

strike

Question 4

In what region of the country are we seeing labor unrest?
What types of unrest is occurring?

Answer 4

In the north east. Strikes are occurring.

Question 5

Why is worker unrest in other regions?

Answer 5

hey have not industrialized in the west yet.

Question 6

how was the standard of living for people at this time?

Answer 6

Their standard of living was just making enough to survive.

Question 7

Goals of labor:

Answer 7

.Eight hour workday
.Abolition of child labor
.Equal pay for men and women
.Safety codes in the workplace
.Prohibition of contract foreign labor

Question 8

Tools of management:

Answer 8

“Scabs”: strikebreakers hired by companies
court injunctions: court order to stop union actions

Question 9

Tools of Labor:

Answer 9

.Boycotts
.Picketing
.Organized strikes: stopping of work by workers to force an employer to meet demands

Question 10

Why did violent riots break out during some labor strikes?

Answer 10

The people were angry with their conditions and wanted to put out their anger.

Question 11

What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?

Answer 11

The Triangle Shirtwaist factory caught on fire and there was no way out. the workers ended up deciding to throw themselves out of the building to die. They thought it was a better fate.

Question 12

Why were conditions so terrible in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory?

Answer 12

Flammable textiles stored throughout factory.
Smoking was common
Lights = gas powered
No fire extinguishers.
1 fire escape.
- The higher ups did not care about their workers.

Question 13

What changes occurred to make workplaces safer after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?

Answer 13

.No smoking while working
.More fire extinguishers
.more fire escapes
.Doors no longer locked.

Question 14

Define Horizontal Integration.

Answer 14

purchase of competing Companies in Same Industry

Question 15

Define Vertical Integration.

Answer 15

Purchase of companies at all levels of production.

Question 16

How did Rockefeller create a monopoly in the oil industry?

Answer 16

He would buy out his competition or go get them put out of business

Question 17

Why were some industrialists referred to as Robber Barons?

Answer 17

They would build monopolies that were unfair to consumers.

Question 18

What were the 3 factors of production?

Answer 18

Land - natural resources
Labor - Human skills and effort
Capital - buildings, tools, equipment

Question 19

How did corporations raise capital?

Answer 19

They would sell shares of its business and the shareholders would earn dividends from corp. profits or lose if company fails

Question 20

What is a monopoly?

Question 21

Describe working conditions for children.

Answer 21

The conditions were horrible. The people making them work did not care at all. Everything was pact together, they had to work super long hours, and the worked in a dirty environment.

Question 22

Identify 2 reasons why it was so bad for children to work under such harsh conditions.

Answer 22

1. exploitation
2. These conditions could have easily serverley injure the kids

Question 23

Given all the negative outcomes for working children, why did employers want to use child labor>?

Answer 23

Employers found it easy to use kids because they cannot stand up for themselves. This can make it easy to manipulate and exploit them.

Question 24

New Inventions- Choose 3 new inventions and explain how they affected the lives of Americans.

Answer 24

• Light bulb: More light at night/ people can work longer hours
  -Telephone: Info was shared faster/ easier to communicate
  -Dynamite: This Invention Gave America a powerful weapon and a powerful tool to make some money(mining).

Question 25

What happened to the buffalo herds as the railroad expanded across the US? How were natives affected by this?

Answer 25

People started hunting the buffalo and there Herds started to decrease in numbers. The Buffalo were very important to the Natives and caused the Natives to start attacking the westward settlers.

Question 26

Describe life on Reservations

Answer 26

Life on reservations was horrible. The reservations were leftover land that nobody wanted. This means some of the reservations did not have whole lot of wild life or ground good for plants. Life was sad.

Question 27

Dawes Act-define assimilation

Answer 27

assimilation is when people are brought into society and start to resemble the group values, behaviors and beliefs.
Dawes-act - allows the president to break up reservation land and give it out.

Question 28

What were the results of both the Dawes Act and forcing natives onto Reservations?

Answer 28

It isolated the Native Americans and forced them to make a choice. They can stay and live on like they always have but on worse conditions or they can join the rest of society.

Question 29

What was the Homestead Act?

Answer 29

provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land westward.

Question 30

What were some challenges of life on the Great Plains?

Answer 30

The Great Plains was wild and untaimed. There were many dangers especially the weather. On top of everything you would be very isolated from society due to how empty it was.

Question 31

What new technology was used by farmers on the Great Plains?

Answer 31

steel plows, barbed wire, wind mill, sod houses.

Question 32

What industries were affected by the RR?

Answer 32

Oil, steel, farming

Question 33

Which groups were hurt by it?

Answer 33

The native Americans

Question 34

What are time zones and why are they important?

Question 35

Role of Chinese immigrants/Irish immigrants

Answer 35

They started working on the railroads

Question 36

How were farmers affected by the expansion of the railroad

Answer 36

The Farmers we introduced to new lands westward