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Chapter 6-3: Labor Strives to Organize

Key Terms/People:
 * Sherman Antitrust Act: outlawed all monopolies and trusts that restrained trade
 * Knights of Labor: successful early national Union
 * Terence V. Powderly: an Irish Catholic machinist and the mayor of Scranton became the leader
 * Mary Harris Jones: in the union, an organizer of the Knights of Labor
 * Great Upheaval: strikes and violent labor confrontations
 * Haymarket Riot: notorious confrontations of the Great Upheaval
 * American Federation of Labor: a new union formed by Samuel Gompers in 1886
 * Eugene V. Debs: supported the Pullman strikes

Key Events: Government and Business The New Working Class Working Conditions The Knights of Labor The Great Upheaval
 * Gov. did not regulate business practices, despite growing pressure from the general public
 * large monopolies would have no incentive to maintain the quality of their goods or keep prices low
 * little assistance to American industrial workers. 50% of unskilled workers in U.S earned less than $500 per year
 * Most lived in cities looking for jobs, came in by the thousands cities became grounded and a wasteland
 * AA women in northern cities competed with poor immigrant women for domestic jobs and unskilled factory work. Most women work because family needed the income
 * # of children in the workforce doubled during this period for same reason.
 * By1890, 20% of american children between 10-15 worked for wages
 * Children in labor force often faced terrible conditions like 12 hour shifts often at night, pennies a day
 * White unskilled men workers worked 10 hour shifts 6 days a week for $10 a week
 * Knights of Labor: successful early national Union
 * Terence V. Powderly: an Irish Catholic machinist and the mayor of Scranton became the leader
 * Mary Harris Jones: in the union, an organizer of the Knights of Labor
 * Great Upheaval: strikes and violent labor confrontations
 * Haymarket Riot: notorious confrontations of the Great Upheaval
 * American Federation of Labor: a new union formed by Samuel Gompers in 1886
 * Eugene V. Debs: supported the Pullman strikes