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- 1. Multiple Choice
What do we call it when people walk out of their job and refuse to work?
Boycott
Strike
Strikebreakers
Walk out
- 2. Multiple Choice
Why were strikes unsuccessful?
A boss does not need employees to run a business.
Employees did not want to strike.
Strikebreakers would fill the jobs of those on strike.
What's a strike?
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who were typically strikebreakers?
Immigrants
White Males
Women
Children
- 4. Multiple Choice
Why would people go on strike?
To demand better working conditions
To demand for more money
To demand to work less hours
All of these are correct
- 5. Multiple Choice
Who made the least amount of money working in factories?
African American Men
Women
Children
Immigrant men
- 6. Multiple Choice
How much were children paid a week?
$2.00
$7.00
$10.00
$200,000,000
- 7. Multiple Choice
Who founded the American Federation of Labor? (AFL)
George Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
- 8. Multiple Choice
What were the goals of the American Federation of Labor? (AFL).
Higher Wages
Shorter Hours
All of these choices
Safer Working Conditions
None of these choices
- 9. Multiple Choice
What event lead to laws being passed about fire exits?
GAP Factory fire
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Circle Shirtwaist Factory fire
The great fire of NYC
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is a boycott?
When employees refuse to work.
When customers refuse to buy a product from a certain company.
When employers refuse to open their business
When everyone just goes to work on a normal day.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is a monopoly?
When the government owns everything.
When the people of the United States own everything.
When one person or one company owns an entire industry.
When a multitude of business owners own an entire industry.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why were immigrants more willing to take the jobs that Americans were on strike from?
The jobs paid a lot of money.
Immigrants were desperate for money, and were willing to do the work.
Immigrants were bored with their new lives in America.
Immigrants didn't think the conditions were bad at all.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Why was The Jungle an important book?
It wasn't a book
It showed the poor condition of factories
It showed poor conditions of meat factories
It showed the poor condition of tenements
- 14. Multiple Choice
People who tried to find solutions to problems
Muckrakers
Progressives
Politicians
Crooks
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which law broke up big business trusts into small companies?
Sherman Antitrust Act
Roosevelt Antitrust Act
Trust Act
Act of breaking up trusts
- 16. Multiple Choice
Writers that helped spread Progressive's ideas. Wrote about muck that was going on.
Rakers of muck
muckrakers
raking up the muck writers
journalist
- 17. Multiple Choice
What did the 16th Amendment do?
Allowed the government to tax people's income
Allowed the government to relocate immigrants
Allowed the government the right to vote
Allowed people the right to vote
- 18. Multiple Choice
What did the 17th Amendment do?
Allowed the government to tax their income
Allowed people to vote
Allowed citizens the right to vote for their senators
Allowed citizens to vote for their governors
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