Vocabulary
a workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay
What is a sweatshop?
This occurred when workers clashed with strikebreakers outside the McCormick Harverster factory in Chicago. Police opened fire and four workers were killed.
What was the Haymarket Riot?
Who are the Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur)?
a strike at a Carnegie steel mill in which workers went on strike to demand better wages.
What was the Homestead Strike?
workers who replace employees on strike
What are strikebreakers?
This labor union, formed in 1869, eventually permitted all people to join, including women, African Americans, and immigrants.
What is the Knights of Labor?
the transatlantic cable
Who was Cyrus Field?
This was a fire on the 7th floor of a building where women were making shirtwaists. This tragedy but about much-needed safety reforms in workplaces.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
people who oppose organized government
What are anarchists?
This union specifically represented the women and children who worked in textile and clothing factories.
What is the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)?
sending telegraph messages between trains
Who was Granville T. Woods?
This allowed communication between Europe and the United States.
What is the laying of a cable under the Atlantic Ocean.
the right of unions to negotiate with management for workers as a group
What is collective bargaining?
This labor union was for skilled tradespeople. The larger union was made up of smaller unions based on their trade. They fought for collective bargaining.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
the moving assembly line
Who was Henry Ford?
This event took place in Kitty Hawk, NC.
What was the first flight of the "flying machine" by the Wright Brothers?
a method of production in which workers stay in one place as products pass along on a moving track or belt
What is the moving assembly line?
She was an Irish-born worker who advocated for the cause of workers, especially children.
Who was "Mother" Jones?
refrigerated rail cars
Who was Gustavus Swift?
It increased the speed in which the products could be built, making goods more affordable.
What was the invention of the moving assembly line, leading to mass production?