1. Business Owner/Worker Game
Instructions
2 Players, 1 is the business owner and 1 is the worker (flip a coin)
Read the slide. Answer the question.
If correct, give yourself the number of assigned points.
If incorrect, subtract the number of assigned points.
The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.

2. Business Owner
This man incorporated the Bessemer Process into steel making.
Answer
1 point
Andrew Canegie

3. Worker Why did labor unions originally form? Answer 2 Points
Better working conditions and higher wages

4. Business Owner
List 4 factors that led to making the United States an industrial nation.
Answer
4 points
Natural Resources
Large Workforce
3. Free Enterprise
4. New Inventions

5. Worker Why did labor unions originally form? Answer
2 points
Better working conditions and higher wages

6. Business Owner
Name the railroad robber baron who was known for “insider trading.”
Answer
1 point
Jay Gould

7. Worker Two world political views that scared people away from unions
Answer
2 points
Marxism
Anarchism

8. Business Owner
Name the scandal that became public in 1872 involving the Union Pacific stockholders who also owned a construction company who did work for the Union Pacific Railroad. In this scandal, some political figures were sold stocks below the fair market value in return for land grants.
Answer
1 point
The Crédit Mobilier Scandal

9. Worker
1st nationwide labor protest where railway workers blocked tracks and damaged equipment.
Answer
1 point
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

10. Business Owner
Railroad entrepreneur of the Great Northern Railroad who was not a baron. He planned and operated his railroad very well without grants or subsidies from the government. His railroad was the only one to not later go bankrupt.
Answer
1 point
James J. Hill

11. Worker
This May 1, 1886, riot badly hurt the reputation of the Knights of Labor because one of the people arrested was a union member.
Answer
1 point
The Haymarket Riot

12. Business Owner
He adopted vertical integration into his steel industry to help cut costs.
Answer
1 point
Andrew Carnegie

13. Worker
This 1894 strike in Illinois tied up railroads and caused President Cleveland to send in military troops when mail cars were attached to the no longer running railroad cars.
Answer
1 point
The Pullman Strike

14. Business Owner
Name 4 different methods that late 19th and early 20th century businesses used to sell their products.
Answer
4 points
Advertising
Department stores
Chain stores
Mail order

15. Worker The first leader of the American Federation of Labor Union.
Answer
1 point
Samuel Gompers

16. Business Owner
List 4 things a business owner might do to keep his workers from unionizing.
Answer
4 points
Make workers sign an oath or contract not to become a union member
Use undercover detectives to identify union workers
Blacklist
Use a lockout to break the union

17. Women’s Tade Union League
Worker
The name and acronym for the 1903 women’s labor union.
Answer
2 points
Women’s Tade Union League
(WTUL)

18. Scoring Total your scores. The highest score wins!
Good job to both players.