2.7 Review

Which of the following were not priorities of Labor Unions?

• Longer breaks

• Higher wages

• Shorten hours

• Better working conditions

What strike took place at the Carnegie Steel Plant in 1892?

• Pullman Strike

• Haymarket Strike

• Homestead Strike

• Railroad Strike

Where did the Haymarket Strike happen?

• New York

• Indianapolis

• Kansas City

• Chicago

What was the first nationwide industrial union?

• the Knights of Labor

• the AFL

• the Pinkertons

• the Anarchists

_______ is when workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet their demands.

• labor unions
• party
• strike
• sweatshop

What was the main cause of the Pullman Strike?

• Cut wages 
• Pullman wouldn't tell the workers the Wifi password
• Raised rent prices
• Pullman wouldn't pay for electricity in worker's homes

_{Most strikes by unions in the late 1800s were unsuccessful mainly because}

• unions were unconstitutional

• strikes had never been used before to settle labor issues

• government supported business instead of workers

• strikers failed to use militant tactics

Match the following

• Rail Cars & Company Towns

• George Pullman

• Oil

• Andrew Carnegie

• Railroads

• John D. Rockefeller

• Banking

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Steel

• J.P. Morgan

Social Darwinism

• Capitalism that allows companies to conduct business without government intervention

• Theory that taught only the strong survived

• Group of businesses owned by competing companies that is controlled by a single group of trustees

• Complete control over an industry’s production, wages, and prices

Andrew Carnegie

• Banker who made his money by taking over and merging other businesses

• Head of the Standard Oil Company

• Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry

• Railroad Tycoon with a university named after him.