1. Image Analysis – See/Think/Wonder
Working Conditions

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10. Industrialization
Causes
Effects
Predictions T T T

11. Labor Unions Read assigned section Union Logo
The Knights of Labor (pg. 248)
The American Federation of Labor (pg. 249)
Union Logo
Must draw and color
Must represent:
The members—who joined this union
Their goal(s)—what did they want
Their method(s)—what did they do to try and achieve their goal

12. Wealth Differences
Small group of wealthy vs. large group of poor  many poor upset
Some turn to socialism (society should control nation’s wealth; equal distribution)
Many turn to labor unions

13. Add to your notes what your partner shares with you about their union.
Union Logo Share

14. Labor Unions Early Labor Unions The Knights of Labor
Better pay and working conditions
Many failed when times got tough
The Knights of Labor
Skilled and unskilled
African Americans and women
Some success, but by 1890s had disappeared
The American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Only skilled workers (white men)
Better pay, hours, and working conditions
Collective bargaining

15. Employer Reactions Hated, forbid, and fired union members
Made workers promise to never join  sign yellow dog contracts
Refused to recognize or bargain with

16. Homestead Strike (1892) Carnegie & Henry Frick – cut wages
Strike  Frick calls Pinkertons
Assassination attempt on Frick
Strikers lose public support

17. Pullman Strike (1894) Pullman towns
Lay offs and wages cut, BUT doesn’t change rent and prices
Union calls for national strike
Disrupts mail service (federal)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Gov’t sends in troops to stop strike
Pullman Strike (1894)

18. Ch. 6 Monday! What is the Industrial Revolution?
Technologies of the IR – know their impact
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons
Carnegie and Rockefeller – industry & method for monopoly
Vertical and horizontal consolidation - explain each
Monopoly, trust - goals and purpose
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Wealth distribution and Social Darwinism
Working conditions in factories and mines & child labor
Labor unions
Labor Strikes: Pullman, Homestead

19. Prompt #5
Think of something you are unsatisfied with. Briefly describe what you would want changed and how you would try and get it changed.

20. Prompt #6
Create a flow chart with at least 4 boxes for the series of events involved in both the Homestead Strike and the Pullman Strike. (2 flow charts)

21. After Quiz
Turn in the quiz to the basket
Pick up strike assignment sheet
Decide which option you are going to do tomorrow in the lab
Begin to plan