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Chapter 5 Section 4 Practice



Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

When unions represent workers in talking to management, it is called
a.
injunctions.
c.
strikes.
b.
strikebreaking.
d.
collective bargaining.
 

 2. 

A tragic fire that broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory led the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union to push for
a.
shorter working hours.
c.
a safer working environment.
b.
hazard pay.
d.
higher wages.
 

 3. 

After which event did many middle-class Americans associate the labor movement with terrorism and disorder?
a.
Pullman Strike
c.
Homestead Strike
b.
Haymarket Riot
d.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
 

 4. 

The steelworkers' union dwindled after the failure of the
a.
Pullman Strike.
c.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire.
b.
Homestead Strike.
d.
Haymarket Riot.
 

 5. 

Who led the Pullman Strike?
a.
Eugene V. Debs
c.
John D. Rockefeller
b.
Andrew Carnegie
d.
J. Pierpont Morgan
 

Completion
Complete each statement.
 

 6. 

Child-labor said that children working in factories had to be at least  ____________________.
 

 

 7. 

The ____________________ used secrecy to prevent members from losing their jobs.
 

 

 8. 

The AFL grew to ____________________ members in 1904.
 

 

 9. 

Nearly 150 workers died in a fire at the _________________________ factory.
 

 

 10. 

Companies hired ____________________ to replace striking workers.
 

 

Matching
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
led the American Federation of Labor
b.
court order
c.
Mother Jones
d.
sweatshops
e.
Knights of Labor
 

 11. 

garment workers' factories
 

 12. 

founded by garment cutters
 

 13. 

Samuel Gompers
 

 14. 

Mary Harris Jones
 

 15. 

injunction
 

Short Answer
 

 16. 

How did employers react to child-labor laws?
 

 17. 

Samuel Gompers was the leader of what organization?
 

 18. 

What is collective bargaining?
 

 19. 

Why did nearly 150 workers, mostly young immigrant women, perish in the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911?
 

 20. 

Why was union leader Eugene V. Debs sent to jail?
 



 
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