PART ONE: LABOR RELATIONS OVERVIEW
CHAPTER 1: HISTORY AND LAW
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Young women found work in textile mills in the 1840s but did not stay long enough
to unionize because:
a. They were discharged for incompetence.
b. They took the jobs temporarily to help save the family farm.
c. The mills closed.
d. Pregnant women were not allowed to work in Colonial America.
e. The work was considered demeaning.
(b; Easy; p. 5)
2. Which organization was often employed by company owners to assist them during a
labor strike?
a. “Molly Maguires”
b. “Wobblies”
c. Pinkerton agents
d. State militia
e. Knights of Labor
, (c; Moderate; p. 7)
3. Which of the following topics was mentioned frequently around the nation in the
speeches of Eugene Debs?
a. Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”
b. Years of strikebreaking by hired thugs
c. Debs’s objection to the U.S. entry into World War I
d. Government troops breaking up the Pullman Strike
e. All of the answer choices are correct.
(c; Moderate; p. 12)
,4. Which of the following was the first national trade union to advocate collective
bargaining, trade autonomy, exclusive jurisdiction, standard hours, and better
wages and working conditions?
a. Clayton Act
b. Civil Service Reform Act
c. AFL and CIO merge
d. American Federation of Labor (AFL)
e. None of the answer choices is correct.
(d; Moderate; p. 12)
5. _____ staged the first “sit-in” strike, occupying the General Motors auto plant in Flint,
Michigan.
a. Teamsters
b. The United Auto workers
c. Industrial workers
d. Loggers
e. Craft workers
(b; Easy; pg 19)
6. Which 1800s national social union was formed to organize farmers and skilled and
unskilled workers?
, a. National Labor Union
b. Knights of Labor
c. Socialist Labor Movement
d. American Federation of Labor
e. Congress of Industrial Organizations
(b; Easy; pg 23)
7. The American labor movement of the 1800s was partly based on two competing
ideas. The second one was individualism—people can become successful through
hard work. The first idea was
a. State’s rights—each state is sovereign.
b. The Wagner Act.
c. Community—people with common interests can best work to collectively
solve their problems.
d. Grievance arbitration of disputes.
e. Equity—the elimination of any wage differentials.
(c; Easy; p. 13)
CHAPTER 1: HISTORY AND LAW
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Young women found work in textile mills in the 1840s but did not stay long enough
to unionize because:
a. They were discharged for incompetence.
b. They took the jobs temporarily to help save the family farm.
c. The mills closed.
d. Pregnant women were not allowed to work in Colonial America.
e. The work was considered demeaning.
(b; Easy; p. 5)
2. Which organization was often employed by company owners to assist them during a
labor strike?
a. “Molly Maguires”
b. “Wobblies”
c. Pinkerton agents
d. State militia
e. Knights of Labor
, (c; Moderate; p. 7)
3. Which of the following topics was mentioned frequently around the nation in the
speeches of Eugene Debs?
a. Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”
b. Years of strikebreaking by hired thugs
c. Debs’s objection to the U.S. entry into World War I
d. Government troops breaking up the Pullman Strike
e. All of the answer choices are correct.
(c; Moderate; p. 12)
,4. Which of the following was the first national trade union to advocate collective
bargaining, trade autonomy, exclusive jurisdiction, standard hours, and better
wages and working conditions?
a. Clayton Act
b. Civil Service Reform Act
c. AFL and CIO merge
d. American Federation of Labor (AFL)
e. None of the answer choices is correct.
(d; Moderate; p. 12)
5. _____ staged the first “sit-in” strike, occupying the General Motors auto plant in Flint,
Michigan.
a. Teamsters
b. The United Auto workers
c. Industrial workers
d. Loggers
e. Craft workers
(b; Easy; pg 19)
6. Which 1800s national social union was formed to organize farmers and skilled and
unskilled workers?
, a. National Labor Union
b. Knights of Labor
c. Socialist Labor Movement
d. American Federation of Labor
e. Congress of Industrial Organizations
(b; Easy; pg 23)
7. The American labor movement of the 1800s was partly based on two competing
ideas. The second one was individualism—people can become successful through
hard work. The first idea was
a. State’s rights—each state is sovereign.
b. The Wagner Act.
c. Community—people with common interests can best work to collectively
solve their problems.
d. Grievance arbitration of disputes.
e. Equity—the elimination of any wage differentials.
(c; Easy; p. 13)
