Key Terms
An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
What are labor unions?
Cities are known as this land/neighborhood
What is urban?
Horses pulled first trolley cars at this speed
What is 6 mi/hour?
Invented the cable car in San Francisco; late 1800s-- steam powered--pulled by cable
Who is Andrew S. Hallidie?
Farmland is referred to as this
What is rural?
inner city institution that provided education, recreational and social services
What are settlement houses?
Found in cities that could infect residents there
What are garbage, rats, insects and pigs?
By 1890 this many cities had electric trolley cars
What is 50?
News reporter--opened up topics of problems in NYC tenements
Who is Jacob Riis?
AFL stand for this
Work stoppage by union members that is endorsed by the union in response to grievances
What is a strike?
Possible safety concern about tenements
What are fires?
The very first union was formed by workers in this industry
What are ironworkers?
Invented the electric trolley car
Who is Frank Sprague?
An invention used in skyscrapers
What are electric elevators?
Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
What is collective bargaining?
Established kindergartens and classes for adults
What is the Hull House?
This is still used by unions today
What is collective bargaining?
Union organizer and founder of the AFL
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Area outside of cities in known as this
What is suburban?
A violent strike in a steel mill in PA
What is the Homestead Strike?
By 1900 there were almost 100 in American cities
What are settlement houses?
No fresh air in buildings and unsafe machines
What are dangers for factory workers?
Opened Hull House in Chicago
Who is Jane Addams?
Wrote and took pictures of the poor living conditions in NYC tenements
Who is Jacob Riis?