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Name Period
Unit 2
Powerpoint #3 Notes – Unions
1. Give FOUR reasons the U.S. became a leading industrial power:
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b. ______________________________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________________________
2. What does “laissez fair” mean? ___________________________________________________________________
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3. How did Industrialization during the late 1800s contributed to the development of organized labor? _____________
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4. Give THREE ways that businesses suppressed unions:
a. ______________________________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________________________
5. Who was Karl Marx? _________________________________________________________________________
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6. Who did Marx say would eventually rise up and overthrow the government? ______________________________
7. What type of workers did “Mother Jones” fight to organize? ___________________________________
8. What was the impact of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877? ____________________________________________
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9. Give THREE things the Knights of Labor fought for:
a. ______________________________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________________________

2. 10. What was the impact of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago? _______________________________________________
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11. Give TWO facts about Eugene V. Debs:
a. ______________________________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________________________
12. What was the American Federation of Labor (AFL)? __________________________________________________
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13. Who was Samuel Gompers? _____________________________________________________________________
14. What was two beliefs of Gompers and the AFL:
a. ______________________________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________________________
15. What was the impact of the Pullman Strike? _________________________________________________________
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16. Who were the Wobblies? _______________________________________________________________________
17. What did the Wobblies stand for? _________________________________________________________________
18. Why was the WTUL formed? ____________________________________________________________________
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19. Summary:
a. _________________________________________________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________________________________________________
d. _________________________________________________________________________________________