Strikes and Unrest — Quiz

Question 1

Action taken by employers to keep unions from forming is called

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union busting.

Question 2

What is the main reason that the US government wanted to avoid large-scale railroad strikes after the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

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Railroad strikes were a threat to economic prosperity and national security.

Question 3

During the 1870s, a major economic depression spread to the United States from which continent?

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Europe

Question 4

Which of the statements accurately describes President Hayes’s reaction to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

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President Hayes sent militias and federal troops from town to end the strike.

Question 5

As economic conditions declined during the 1870s, the most common way for railroad companies to cut costs was to

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lower workers’ wages.

Question 6

What company management strategy was used to suppress the Homestead Strike?

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Company management hired strikebreakers to break up the union.

Question 7

In the late 1800s, why might a potential new factory employee refuse to sign a yellow-dog contract?

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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

Question 8

Which of the following was a cause of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

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Railroad companies rejected workers’ requests for higher wages.

Question 9

Which action is an example of bribery, a tactic used by companies to stop unions from forming?

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Company management secretly pays a worker to tell them which coworkers have discussed forming or joining a union.

Question 10

Which lists the events surrounding the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in the correct order?

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Railroads rejected workers’ demands; the strike became increasingly violent for 45 days; trade and business came to a halt; banks collapsed.

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