Labour Rights

Question 1

When was the Contract Labour Law repealed?

Answer 1

1869

Question 2

When and who did found the Knights of Labour?

Answer 2

1869

Uriah S. Stephens

Question 3

How did the Knight of Labour become a large union?

Answer 3

The appointment of Terence V. Powderly as the leader of the organisation in 1879, the union was moved out of secrecy.
The successful Railway Strike of 1877 saw membership rise from 100,000 to 700,000 workers in 1886-87.

Question 4

When were the Haymarket riots?

Answer 4

May 1886

Question 5

When was the Pullman Strike?

Answer 5

May-June 1894

Question 6

When was the AFL founded?

Answer 6

October 1896

Question 7

Which Act’s affected radical Labour magazines in WW1?

Answer 7

Espionage Act and Sedition Act limited freedom of speech during the course of the war.

Question 8

When was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed?

Answer 8

1890

Question 9

What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act achieve?

Answer 9

It prevent anti-commerce activities from occurring

Question 10

What did the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?

Answer 10

It created a system of inspection for the meatpacking industry in order to improve working conditions and public health.

Question 11

When was the Clayton Anti-trust Act passed?

Answer 11

1914

Question 12

When was the Keating-Owen Act?

Answer 12

1916

Question 13

What did the Keating-Owen Act achieve?

Answer 13

It sought to prevent child labour of children under the age 14, by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed under 14.

Question 14

When was the Adamson Act passed?

Answer 14

September 1916

Question 15

What did the Adamson Act achieve?

Answer 15

The act sets an eight-hour work day and establishes overtime compensation for railroad workers, marking the first time the U.S. government regulates the labor conditions of non-government workers.

Question 16

Wilson v. New (2017)

Answer 16

The court found that the Adamson Act was constitutional in fixing a minimum wage and maximum hours of railroad workers.

Question 17

What did the 1924 Immigration Act do?

Answer 17

Set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere, an 80% reduction from the average before World War I.

Question 18

New York Central Railroad Co v. White

Answer 18

The Supreme Court upheld laws regarding compulsory compensation, supporting accident insurance laws for workers.

Question 19

What effects did the Red Scare have on union membership?

Answer 19

Due to manipulation in the press an anti-labor sentiment developed in the country, between 1919-1921 the overall union membership fell from 5.1 million to 3.6 million.

Question 20

What did the Clayton Anti-trust Act achieve?

Answer 20

Enacted October 15th, 1914. Substantively, the Act seeks to capture anticompetitive practices in their incipiency by prohibiting particular types of conduct, not deemed in the best interest of a competitive market.

Question 21

What was the number of unemployed people in the US in November 1930?

Answer 21

6,900,000

Question 22

What was the number of unemployed people in the US in November 1932?

Answer 22

13,500,000

Question 23

When was the Federal Emergency Relief Administration created?

Answer 23

May 1933

Question 24

What did the Federal Emergency Relief Administration achieve?

Answer 24

The program aimed to reduce unemployment and was led by Harry Hopkins, between 1933 and December 1935 when it closed it provided $3.1 billion to states and localities, employing 20 million people.

Question 25

When was the Wagner Act passed?

Answer 25

July 1935

Question 26

What did the Wagner Act achieve?

Answer 26

A foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes. Central to the act was a ban on company unions.

Question 27

When was the Social Security Act passed?

Answer 27

August 1935