Unit 7: Growth of the Nation, 1865-1916
Topic 6: Labor Unions
Graphic Organizer
Name: _____________________________
Block: _________________
Date:__________________
Overview: Big Questions and Topics for the Unit
How & why did the US grow and change from 1865-1900?
If growth + change = progress, then is progress a good thing?
How did people respond to the changes in society?
1: Segregation and Jim Crow
2: Westward Migration
3: Urbanization
4: Immigration
5: Industrialization
6: Labor Unions
7: The Progressive Movement
Finish Ch 14.3, pages 450-455 and complete the following organizer.
Describe the
conditions that
led to labor
unions forming
UNION
Knights of
Labor
Leaders & Goals



American
Federation of
Labor (AFL)
Eight-hour workday
Equal pay for equal work for
women
Did not like strikes
Membership – Who could join?
Open to all workers, regardless of race,
gender or skill (men, women, immigrants,
African-Americans, skilled and unskilled)
Samuel _______________. Wanted
 better
 better
 better
American
Railway Union
Industrial
Workers of the
World
Founder: ______________________
Notes:
What was their nickname and what
did they want?
International
Women who worked in the
Ladies Garment “sweatshops” making clothes in
Workers’ Union factories in New York and other cities
(p.454)
What industry did they all work in? Could
anyone join?
Who could join?
Better and safer working conditions, better
hours and pay
Known for the: _______________________
STRIKES – p. 453-455
Railway
Strike of
1877
Haymarket
Riot, 1886
Why did they strike?
Where were the strikes?
What happened
to the strikers?
What city and company?
Why had there been a strike?
What happened at the demonstration?
Homestead
Strike, 1892
Pullman
Strike, 1894
What impact did it have on labor unions
(and on the Knights of Labor, specifically)?
What type of company and who owned it?
Why did they strike?
What happened
to the strikers?
What type of workers?
Why did they strike?
Who was the leader of the union and
what happened to him?
What do you
think led to
the decline of
the labor
unions?
IDENTIFY
What’s a
“scab” in the
labor
movement?
Answer the SKILLBUILDER QUESTIONS on page 453
1.
2.