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1. Why did labor unions first form?

2. What were working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution?

3. What did workers want when they went on strike?

4. What typically happened to individual employees who complained about working conditions?

5. What is it called when a group of workers decide to not go to work?

6. True or False: Strikes during the Industrial Revolution were always peaceful.

7. Which national union did Samuel Gompers found?

8. What major strike began in Martinsburg, West Virginia after the B&O Railroad company cut wages?

9. What did the Lowell Mill Girls call a 'strike' in 1836?

10. True or False: Labor unions are illegal in the United States today.