Strikes and Unrest
Which lists the events surrounding the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in the correct order?
Banks collapsed; railroads rejected workers' demands; trade and business came to a halt; the strike became increasingly violent for 45 days
What defines "wildcat strike"?
a strike not approved by a union
Which was a direct result of the Pullman Strike?
American Railway Union leader Eugene Debs was arrested
What company management strategy was used to suppress the Homestead Strike?
Company management hired strikebreakers to break up the union
Which action is an example of bribery, a tactic used by companies to stop unions from forming?
Company management secretly pays a worker to tell them which coworkers have discussed forming or joining a union
During the 1870s, a major economic depression spread to the United States from which continent?
Europe
What was Henry Frick's main strategy for stopping the Homestead Strike?
Frick hired the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to come to Homestead and try to break up the strike
Which of the following statements accurately describes President Hayes's reaction to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
President Hayes sent militias and federal troops from town to end the strike
What is the main reason that the US government wanted to avoid large-scale railroad strikes after the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
Railroad strikes were a threat to economic prosperity and national security
Read the quote attributed to Theodore Rhodie, a former Pullman employee. "I do not like to walk up there and hand up my membership in the American Railway Union because when a man asks me to give up my principles, my rights as an American citizen, he might just as well ask for my life." What result of the Pullman Strike is the worker describing?
The rehiring of workers after they resigned from the union
In the late 1800s, why might a potential new factory employee refuse to sign a yellow-dog contract?
because promising not to join a union would strip the employee of his ability to protest workplace injustices with the support of an organized workers' group
As economic conditions declined during the 1870s, the most common way for railroad companies to cut costs was to
lower workers' wages
After the Pullman Strike ended, the majority of the workers
resigned from the union and were rehired by the company
The Pullman Strike resulted in
the company rehiring workers that withdrew from the union