Chapter 24 5-7

Question 1

urbanization

Answer 1

city growth

Question 2

tenements

Answer 2

cheap apartments that were dirty, dangerous, no windows , water, or heat

Question 3

business people rented

Answer 3

space in cityscapes and
skyscrapers for their offices and factories

Question 4

so many people wanted jobs so

Answer 4

they got really low pay

Question 5

what was the thing that took the most lives of all workplace dangers

Answer 5

fire

Question 6

labor unions

Answer 6

organization that brings together workers in the same trade, or job, to fight for better wages and working conditions

Question 7

Uriah Stephens

Answer 7

organized the Knights of Labor

Question 8

What was the Knights of Labor

Answer 8

an union that lead a few strikes and many ppl dropped out because if a rally that happened at Haymarket square chicago

Question 9

Samuel Gompers

Answer 9

led the American Federation of Labor

Question 10

American Federation of Labor

Answer 10

group of local trade unions who tried to negotiate agreements with employers on issues like wages

Question 11

Rose Schneiderman

Answer 11

organized the women in her factory as part of the national board of united cloth and cap makers

Question 12

as cities expanded upward land

Answer 12

costs shot up

Question 13

why did factory owners prefer top floors?

Answer 13

rents were cheaper higher up, and the natural light was better so they saved money on electric lighting

Question 14

cities were

Answer 14

exciting places to live

Question 15

working conditions in most industries were

Answer 15

appalling

Question 16

business owners could pay low wages because

Answer 16

so many people were looking for jobs

Question 17

if a worker complained

Answer 17

they could easily be replaced with someone else who might work for less money

Question 18

millions of

Answer 18

children worked in mines, mills, and factories

Question 19

of all the workplace dangers, ______ claimed the most lives

Answer 19

fire

Question 20

Carnegie and Rockefeller didn’t ______ because ______

Answer 20

care about their employees because they didn’t know them

Question 21

nativist

Answer 21

people who were originally here and immigrants took their jobs

Question 22

labor unions-

Answer 22

organized workers in the same trade or job to fight for better wages and working conditions

Question 23

The Knights led

Answer 23

several successful strikes against telegraph and railroad companies

Question 24

some business owners used to defeat unions

Answer 24

force

Question 25

Henry Clay Frick-

Answer 25

made plans to reopen his plant with non-union workers. to prevent the people getting hurt from the other people striking, he hired 300 armed guards.

Question 26

International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union-

Answer 26

represented women in clothing factories

Question 27

Thousands of NYC garment workers-

Answer 27

walked off their jobs to protest poor working conditions and low pay

Question 28

Samuel Gompers-

Answer 28

led the American Federation of Labor