Molly Maguires
Strikes of 1877
Labor Unions
Inventions
100

if the furnaces in mines failed what could fill mineshafts

methane

100

July 16, 1877 who went on strike

railroad workers

100

who founded the knights of labor

Uriah Stephens

100

Thomas Edison invented this invention

Lightbulb

200

what were Molly Maguires

a labor group

200

in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania armed strikers pushed what off their tracks

train engines

200

at first, this union was the biggest union

knights of labor

200

Andrew Carnegie was the first to introduce what rail travel

Sleeping car

300

the Mollies kept what from running

trains

300

who else went on a strike after some railroad workers did

more workers

300

in 1881 who became the head of the knights of labor

Terence Powderly

300

Cyrus McCormick of Virginia invented this machine that replaced the scythe for harvesting

mechanical reaper

400

the Molly Maguires were from where

Ireland

400

the great strikes stopped what

railroads

400

who was one of the founders of AFL

Samuel Gompers

400

in 1863 Samuel Morse invented this which used wires to carry messages

electric telegraph