Chapter 5 Guided Reading Questions
Labor Movement
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List (6) problems that workers faced while working in the factories.
What were the (3) main goals of unions.
Identify the name of the first national labor union. Who founded it? Year?
List (4) of their demands.
Identify the 2nd major union. Who founded it? Year?
What were the (4) goals of the AFL?
What percentage of American workers were in unions by 1910?
Discuss (4) tactics used by management against employees that striked.
What were (4) main reasons that governments favored management over unions?
List the (3) main strikes of the late 1800s and the years they occurred.
Define anarchist.
What did unions become associated with?
How was the Knights of Labor affected by this?
What (2) men were the steel workers union targeting during the Homestead Strike?
Who did Frick hire to break the strike and reopen the steel mill?
Discuss what Pullman invented. Why did his workers go on strike?
Who represented the railroad workers? And what did he go on to become?
What did these 3 strikes “demonstrate”?
List (5) types of ideologies.
Who founded Communism? What book did he write? What would “eventually” happen?
What do Socialists believe?
Discuss what anarchists “favor.”