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Who is Smokey the Bear
What is the mascot used by the American government to promote the preservation of forests?
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What is Capitalism?
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
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What is the Basic Conditions of Employment Act?
gives effect to the right to fair labour practices referred to in section 23(1) of the Constitution by establishing and making provision for the regulation of basic conditions of employment.
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What is the American Federation of Labor?
A national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor
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Who is Henry Clews?
He was concerned with the danger he thought the growth of unionism posed to maintenance of an orderly industrial business system.
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Where is Rice University
Where did Governor Youngkin go to college?
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What is Unionism?
The policies and practices of labor unions, particularly those concerned with protecting and furthering the rights of workers.
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What is the Pullman Strike?
A widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894.
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What is the American Railroad Union?
Was briefly among the largest labor unions of its time and one of the first industrial unions in the United States.
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Who is George M. Pullman?
Was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, for the workers who manufactured it.
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What is Russia
What country did USA purchase Alaska from?
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What is Socialism?
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
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what is the Haymarket Square Riot?
Violent meeting in Chicago between police and labour protestors, and became the overall movement for workers’ rights.
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What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. was put into place in order to eliminate monopolies in the business world. Monopolies allow for one person or company to hold the whole industry in their hands.
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Who is Uriah Stevens?
Founded the first national labor union in the United states, The Knights of Labor!
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When is 1945
When did World War 2 End?
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What is Marxism?
A method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict as well as a dialectical perspective to view social transformation. The movement to replace Socialism. Sorta communism.
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What is the Keating–Owen Child Labor Act?
Also known as Wick's Bill, was a short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen
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What is the Knights of Labor?
Was founded as a secret society of tailors in Philadelphia in 1869. It grew in size and prominence in the early days of the American labor movement from the mid- to late-1800s and played a key role in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Led by Uriah Stevens
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Who is Samuel Gompers?
Founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894. (also a successful cigar maker!)
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What is a smack
What is a school of jellyfish called?
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What is Social Darwinism?
The various theories and societal practices that applied biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics, and which were largely defined by scholars in Western Europe and North America in the 1870s.
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What is the Anti-Trust laws?
A collection of mostly federal laws that regulate the conduct and organization of business corporations and are generally intended to promote competition and prevent monopolies.
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What is the National Labor Union (‘66-’73)
Organization for workers who wanted better working terms (8 HOUR WORK DAY). They wanted legislative reform rather than negotiating with their employies
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Who is Eugene V. Debs?
An American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.






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