Labor Unions Emerge

1.)  Based upon what i have read labor unions were good because they tried to get better working conditions for all the workers. The labor unions helped them change by eliminating many of the bad things that workers went through.

2.)  The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a sweatshop in which 146 seamstresses died because the building was on fire and they all burned to death. These deaths could have been prevented if they had more things for fire safety like sprinklers fire escapes and if the conditions were not that bad.

3.)  Monopolists did not want unions because that would mean that they had to pay their workers more improve benefits, and improve working conditions. Union workers did not like scabs because they would do the same work as them for even less money so it did not help them.

4.)  Many factory and sweatshop owners disliked the vision of unions like the IWW because they were socialists and the monopolists, and these people didnt like to share their weath with anybody.

Hopelessly Bound To The Stake

             

 

            Workers were treated terrible with cruelty, they were forced to work 14 to 16 hours of hard labor in unsafe conditions. Workers had to work hard for long hours and got paid very little. They  had no safety in there work area they always ran the risk of getting severely injured in thoe conditions they were in. Most likely also they wouldnt get treatment if they will get hurt on their job which will mean they will have to pay for their own treatment for their injuries with the ittle money they make and not work for a while during that time and run the risk of losing a job opportunity with a disability you physically get after your injury or just plainly you get replaced. The money in  politics contributed to this cartoon because the rich would get the laws to be helpful to them only while the workers had to suffer in those conditions. It has changed now because workers have more rights and are protected now by laws that keep them from being overworked.



Are The Old Boses Still In Charge?

              What is the setting for the cartoon?            

• the setting for the cartoon is the senate of the United States (bicameral government/ House of Represenatives)

              What entrance is open, what entrance is closed?

• The monopolists entrance is open and the peoples entrance is closed

              Who do you think the large men at the back of the room represent?

• The large men at the back of the room represent the monopolists and they represent the special interest group.

             Why would the large men be in the room in the first place?

• They are there to show that they have power in the government and are part of the creation of the laws.

Rise of Industry and Monopolies

1.) what were the three main causes of industrial growth in america?

• the 3 main causes of industrial growth in america were natural resources, government support, and urban population.

2.) Trusts and monopolies during America's early industrial age created?

•   the people in the US , because it  was a society were workers were working very hard but got paid very little. also the share of weathy was bad and there were poor people because of greediness from the monopolies.

       

Mayor Events Before The Civil War

 1.) Around 1858 the U.S. was divided geographically into north and south. The south being agricultural and the north being industrial.  They both had different religions, climates, and they believed in different opinions and things.
 2.) The country was so divided by the issue of slavery, California was only accepted by making the compromise of 1858.  There was an argument about this and if the north and south didnt agree on the compromise then California wouldnt be able to become a state so it had to be through popular soverinty.
 3.)Around this time many southern states were seriously considering leaving the union.
 4.) Many people from the north hated slavery, because they thought its was immoral. People that help slaves to freedom were called abolitionists. These people risk there lives because they wanted slavey abalished.
 5.) when Uncle Toms Cabin was published, the south took it as an attack on them. The south thought it was an attack on them on how they work things. It increased the north to increase protests against the fugitive slave act. 
  6.) Two politicians became famous for their slavery debates, they were Abraham Lincoln who thought slavery was immoral, and Stephen Douglas who believed in popular sovereignty.
 7.) On December 20, 1860 the south seceded from the union and the civil war would begin.

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1. Which was NOT a reason why native-born Americans encouraged Americanization? * Select the best answer

• A. Native-born Americans wanted to assimilate people from other cultures into the dominant culture
• B. Native-born Americans wanted the immigrants to practice their customs
• C. Native-born Americans wanted to teach new immigrants skills needed for citizenship
• D. Native-born Americans wanted to teach new immigrants cooking skills

2. What were cities most like for the new immigrants coming to America? * Select the best answer

• A. Clean and welcoming
• B. Healthy, with clean water
• C. Immigrants would most likely have had to dodge horse manure
• D. Plenty of single-family homes

3. What would best describe the cities to a new immigrant? * Select the best answer

• A. Pickpockets and thieves were plenty
• B. Plenty of police harassing new immigrants
• C. All the clean water was dedicated to fighting fires
• D. Running water and plumbing worked 60% of the time

4. Why did immigrants move to the cities in the first place? * Select the best answer

• A. Plenty of work in the factories
• B. Cheap housing
• C. Plenty of room in tenements
• D. A & B only

5. People moved from the farms to the cities because? * Select the best answer

• A. Less segregation and discrimination in the cities
• B. Farming technology improved
• C. Wood plows were being made in the cities
• D. None of the above

Because of Electricity

                                             Electricity
                            gives us light and makes life great
                                       now we have power