SparkNotes: Mother Jones: Review Test

1. Where was Marry Harris born?

(A) Canada

(B) Ireland

(C) Colorado

(D) West Virginia

2. In 1905, Mother Jones participated in the founding of which radical organization?

(A) The United Mine Workers

(B) The Western Federation of Mine Workers

(C) The American Federation of Labor

(D) The Industrial Workers of the World

3. Where did Mary Harris work as a dressmaker?

(A) Memphis

(B) Colorado

(C) Chicago

(D) Philadelphia

4. Which of the following historical events did Mother Jones NOT experience?

(A) The Chicago Fire of 1871

(B) The Yellow Fever Epidemic

(C) The Boston Tea Party

(D) The Irish Potato Famine

5. What was the term used to describe the late nineteenth-century in American history?

(A) The Gilded Age

(B) The Era of Wars

(C) Revolutionary Times

(D) Progressive Age

6. Where and how did Mother Jones lose all of her children and her husband?

(A) In Colorado, due to a mining accident

(B) In Memphis, due to a mining accident

(C) In Chicago, due to the Great Fire

(D) In Memphis, due to yellow fever

7. What event led to the conviction and execution of four anarchist leaders?

(A) The Chicago Fire

(B) The Anthracite Strike

(C) World War I

(D) The Haymarket Tragedy

8. With what leftist paper was Mother Jones involved?

(A) The New York Times

(B) The Chicago Tribune

(C) Radical Times

(D) The Appeal to Reason

9. When did the Haymarket Tragedy occur?

(A) April, 1971

(B) January, 1900

(C) May, 1886

(D) January, 1886

10. Which union leader met with President Roosevelt during the anthracite strike?

(A) Samuel Gompers

(B) Mother Jones

(C) Bill Haywood

(D) John Mitchell

11. What was the result of the Anthracite Strike of 1902?

(A) Failure for the UMW

(B) Government control of the mines

(C) Success for the UMW

(D) A shutdown of all mining operations

12. Where was the Western Federation of Miners based?

(A) The Rocky Mountain states

(B) Western Pennsylvania

(C) Eastern Pennsylvania

(D) West Virginia

13. Who was in the "broom and mop" brigades?

(A) Miners

(B) Janitors

(C) The wives of miners

(D) Mine guards

14. What was the purpose of the "broom and mop" brigades?

(A) To sweep union halls

(B) To clean workers' homes

(C) To intimidate strikebreakers

(D) To clean the mines

15. Who was the owner of the anthracite mines?

(A) Roosevelt

(B) Mother Jones

(C) J.P. Morgan

(D) John Mitchell

16. Why was the strike in West Virginia in 1902 unsuccessful?

(A) The miners did not want a strike

(B) The mine operators shut down the mines

(C) A war started

(D) The union organizers were quickly imprisoned

17. What percentage of miners walked out on strike in Colorado in 1903?

(A) Ninety-five percent

(B) Eighty percent

(C) Sixty percent

(D) 100 percent

18. Why did the strike in Colorado between 1903 and 1904 not succeed?

(A) Some miners reached a compromise, while others were still on strike

(B) The miners voted unanimously not to strike

(C) The US Army stopped the strike

(D) Mother Jones became sick

19. When did Mother Jones first resign from her position in the UMW?

(A) 1904

(B) 1906

(D) 1898

20. Which of the following was NOT a reason for Mother Jones' resignation from the UMW?

(A) Exhaustion

(B) Disagreement with the leadership

(C) Disillusionment with the workers

(D) Illness

21. Who was the leader of US Steel in 1919?

(A) Roosevelt

(B) Rockefeller

(C) Carnegie

(D) Gary

22. What improvements in workers' lives came from the steel strike of 1919?

(A) They were offered health care

(B) No improvements were made

(C) They received a wage increase

(D) The work-day was reduced to eight hours from ten

23. Where did Mother Jones march with child workers?

(A) From Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.

(B) From California to West Virginia

(C) From Colorado to Idaho

(D) From Philadelphia to New York

24. Where were the children in Mother Jones's Children's March employed?

(A) Mines

(B) Lumberyards

(C) Farms

(D) Textile mills

25. Which political party did Mother Jones work for?

(A) The Communist Party

(B) The Democratic Party

(C) The Socialist Party

(D) The Libertarian Party

26. What radical Mexican group did Mother Jones support in the 1900s?

(A) The Diaz Government

(B) El Partido Mexicano

(C) El Partido Liberal Mexicano

(D) El Partido Anarquista

27. When was the Diaz government in Mexico overthrown?

(A) 1910

(B) 1925

(D) 1886

28. Where did the cheapest coal come from in 1911?

(A) Colorado

(B) Pennsylvania

(C) New Jersey

(D) West Virginia

29. What kind of business strategies did Rockefeller embark upon after the Colorado Coal War emphasize?

(A) Permanently dividing the workers

(B) A massive public relations campaigns

(C) Increasing the use of violence

(D) Decreasing workers' wages as punishment

30. What was the name of the free town in West Virginia where Mother Jones held meetings?

(A) Freeville

(B) Eksdale

(C) Toledo

(D) Gary

31. On which tent colony in West Virginia did mine operators open fire?

(A) Mucklow

(B) Homestead

(C) Ludlow

(D) Trinidad

32. Which of the following were not demands made by Colorado workers in 1913?

(A) An eight-hour day

(B) Improved wages

(C) A retirement Plan

(D) Union recognition

33. What weapons did mine guards often use against strikers?

(A) Land mines

(B) Machine guns

(C) Mustard gas

(D) Chemical weapons

34. Who was President Wilson most angry with during the Colorado Coal War?

(A) The miners

(B) The strikers

(C) The mine owners

(D) The union organizers