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6. What did Woodrow Wilson create?

  • Department of Labor and National War Labor Board
  • Department of Labor and National Labor Relations Board
  • National War Labor Board and National Labor Relations Board

7. What percentage of the workforce was unionised in 1933?

  • 10%
  • 15%
  • 20%

8. What did the FLSA ban?

  • child labour
  • sweatshops
  • closed shop

9. What was a key issue with the Social security Act of 1935?

  • gave no pensions or unemployment benefit
  • employers won't want to pay their share of the money
  • didn't include manufacture workers

10. When was Adair v. USA?

  • 1908
  • 1905
  • 1903

11. By how much did wages rise in WW1?

  • 20%
  • 10%
  • 15%

12. How many workers were unionised 1900-1920?

  • 500,000-5,000,000
  • 300,000-3,000,000
  • 500,000-3,000,000

13. Number of strikes 1921-1929:

  • 2,385 to 921
  • 2,385-1,301
  • 1,301-921

14. When was the socialist party created?

  • 1901
  • 1899
  • 1905

15. What had NIRA aimed to achieve with the National Recovery Administration?

  • all of the above
  • better working conditions
  • maximum working hours
  • minimum wage
  • right to join a union and collectively bargain

16. What did the Wagner Act facilitate with union expansion by 1938?

  • 3.7 million to 7 million
  • 3.7 million to 9 million
  • 2.7 million to 9 million