People or groups
People working in to gain improved working conditions.
Labor union or union
I was the an important person who helped start the American Federation of Labor.
Samuel Gompers
Children earned an average of how much per day. We are not speaking about the Newsies.
10-20 cents
How did unions become more powerful?
By gaining more people and or combining unions and occupations.
How many days a week did the average worker work?
7
The name of the union organized for the miners?
United Mine Workers
I helped the miners by visiting the mines and encouraging the workers to join the miners union.
Mary Harris Jones or Mother Jones
Women earned how much typically?
$7. a week
What holiday celebrated the hardship the people at the turn of the century endured so they could have better conditions at work.
Labor Day
What was the place a fire broke out and killed 150 people, primarily women.
Triance Shirtwaist Company
Samuel Gompers represented what group of workers in his first strike?
cigar factory workers
I was a teacher who became the director of the United States. Children's Bureau in 1917.
Grace Abbot
Men earned how much in a typical week.
$10
What is a cramped, hot workshop called?
Sweatshop
Textile mills, canning fruits and vegetables, coal mine and picking crops were typical jobs for who/ what population?
children
The young men and woman who were unhappy with Carnegie raising the price on newspapers were called what?
Newsies
I encouraged Illinois to pass the first law forbidding child labor.
Florence Kelley
The newsies earned how much before the Spanish American week?
50 cents a day
How did Carnegies Homestead Works strike end?
violence
Who helped to pass the Compulsory Education Act?
Helen Marot
The Homestead Strike that ended with violence was what type of workers who were not happy with the owners?
steel workers
This man traveled for 12 years capturing pictures of children working.
Lewis Hine
The newsies earned how much after the Spanish American War?
40 cents per day
How did the Newsies Strike end?
In a compromise. The Newsies were able to sell back papers to the owners of the newspaper companies.
At what age did Mother Jones continue to help miners until?
Into her 90s