AP U.S. History / Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
6.7 Labor in the Gilded Age
Notes
Workers faced long hours, low pay and dangerous conditions. Unions: Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor (AFL). Strikes: Great Railroad Strike (1877), Haymarket (1886), Homestead (1892), Pullman (1894), often crushed by government or private forces.
Practice
The AFL organized mainly:
Samuel Gompers.
The Pullman Strike was ended by:
1894.
The Haymarket affair hurt the labor movement because:
Public backlash.
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