Ch. 12 Lesson 1 Check

Large and powerful groups of companies

• Trusts

• Strikes

• Boycotts

• Muckrakers

A worker who replaces striking workers

• Trust

• Strike

• Strikebreaker

• Muckraker

A refusal to work until a group's demands are met

• Boycott

• Strike

• Strikebreaker

• Trust

An agreement not to buy goods from a company

• Boycott

• Strike

• Trust

• Muckraker

Writers who uncovered the sameful working conditions in America

• Strikes

• Trusts

• Strikebreakers

• Muckrakers

Explain at least 3 things that made working conditions so bad in the early 1900s.

True or False: There have always been laws in place to prevent child labor.

• True

• False

Who created the American Federation of Labor?

• President Roosevelt

• Mary Harris Jones

• Samuel Gompers

• Jane Addams

What did Mary Harris Jones do? (select all correct)

• Boycott working environments

• Unionize coal miners

• Run the Hull House

• Work to end child labor

Explain the difference between a strike and a boycott.