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Major Labor Unions of the late 1800s and early 1900s – Part 1
Using the power point presentation, “Major Labor Unions of the late 1800s and early 1900s,”
answer the following questions.
The National Labor Union
1.
What is the significance of the National Labor Union?
2.
What were its three (3) major goals?
a.
b.
c.
3.
What kind of workers were the main supporters?
4.
What other kinds of workers were allowed join?
5.
How many workers belonged to the National Labor Union at its height?
6.
What group of workers were not allowed to join the NLU?
7.
Which political party did the NLU support?
8.
For what did they campaign?
9.
What led to their downfall?
10.
What led to their final demise?
The Molly Maquires
11.
What did the people who belonged to the Molly Maquires do for a living?
12.
Why was the labor union formed?
13.
How did they achieve their goals?
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What caused their downfall?
15.
What finally happened to many in their leadership?
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The Knights of Labor
16.
Who started the Knights of Labor in 1869?
17.
Using the Free Masons as their model, how did they operate?
18.
As a secret fraternity, what groups were excluded from members?
19.
Who took over as Grand Master Workman or leader of the Knights of Labor in the early 1880s?
20.
How did he change the Knights of Labor?
21.
What effect did this have on the union?
22.
What kinds of workers could join the union?
23.
What was the overall strategy of the Knights of Labor under Terrence Powderly?
24.
What were the main concerns of the Knights of Labor?
25.
Reading the Preamble of the Knights of Labor, what is the mission or purpose of the Knights of Labor?
26.
Looking at the slide that says “We declare to the world that our aims are:” what does the Knights of Labor want to
be the true standard of individual and national greatness?
27.
What three (3) things do they want to secure for every worker in #2?
a.
b.
c.
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For what are they calling in #3?
29.
What do they want prohibited in #4?
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In #6, why do they want to establish cooperatives to replace the traditional wage system?
31.
For what are they calling in #7?
32.
What three (3) things do they want the government to own?
33.
Who do they want the government’s public land policy not to aid?
34.
For what are they calling in #10?
35.
In #11, for who do they not want the public lands reserved?
36.
For what else are they calling in #11?
37.
What were their 6 major goals?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
38.
In the beginning, what tactics did the Knights of Labor not endorse?
39.
Why did this change?
40.
What happened because of this change?
41.
To whom was membership extended after 1883?
42.
How many members did the Knights of Labor have by the mid 1880s?
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What caused the Knights of Labor to begin to decline in power?
44.
When did the Knights of Labor disappear completely?
45.
Among several reasons for their decline, what were the main reasons?
a.
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c.
d.
46.
What was the problem of having both skilled and unskilled labor in the same union?
47.
With what did the Knights of Labor become increasingly associated?
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