Question 1

What Percentage of Americans owned 90% of the country’s wealth in 1890?

Accepted Answer

10%

Answer

25%

Answer

about one third

Answer

50%

Question 2

What is the Horatio Alger Myth?

Accepted Answer

Rags to riches or anyone can make it if they work hard enough

Answer

All of these

Answer

If a worker moves 1 grain of sand, they they have changed the world so everyone counts

Answer

The importance of obeying authority

Question 3

What is a lockout?

Accepted Answer

Closing the factory to break a labor movement

Answer

Workers walking out/going on strike

Answer

When the President stops a strike

Answer

When the Supreme Court stops a strike

Question 4

What is a yellow dog contract?

Accepted Answer

Agreement by a worker to not join a union

Answer

Contract for a temporary worker for permanent employment

Answer

Agreement by a worker to join a union

Answer

Contract for a railroad worker that secures citizenship

Question 5

What were the Knights of Labor and the AFL?

Accepted Answer

Labor Union

Answer

Organizations for business owners

Answer

Strike breakers

Answer

Gangs/Organized crime

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