Impact of Reconstruction — Unit test

Question 1

Which of the following best states the reason why workers formed unions beginning in the late 1800s?

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They believed they should have better working conditions and compensation.

Question 2

The development of a system of mass production in manufacturing meant that

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machines rapidly produced large amounts of product.

Question 3

Which of the following best describes Samuel Gompers’s role in relation to the goals of organized labor?

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He was the first president of the largest labor organization in the world.

Question 4

The wildcat strike by employees of the Pullman Company in 1894 was

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not approved by a union.

Question 5

Which of these industries was made possible by Thomas Edison’s ideas and inventions?

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the movie industry

Impact of Reconstruction — Unit test Answers