1. Homework from Last time
Get you Chap4 Sect. 1 & 2 Section Summary worksheet out from last time.

2. Industrialization pushes the Nation forward

3. U.S before industrial Revolution
Agriculture main industry
Less than 1/3 of Great Britain’s output
Civil War boosts industrial production
Ingredients for industrialization

4. Industrialization Land of opportunity
Immigration
2/3 of the Americans worked for wages by 1890
1/3 of the worlds total industrial output by 1913

5. Railroad as a catalyst

7. Working conditions Lots of immigrant workers No Job Security
Over 60 hours a week
35,000 people died a year
Highest in the world
Wages
Men: $429 year
Women: $267 year
Unsafe equipment
No injury compensation

9. Strikes Refusal to work Boycott Company Products
Refusal to Serve “Scabs”

10. Knights of Labor Founded in 1869 Opened to all Labor
Blacks and Women
1885 won major strike against Railroads
Many unskilled flooded membership
“Give No Quarter”
8 hr day
Membership dropped after Haymarket Square

11. The Great Railroad Strike 1877

12. The Great Railroad Strike 1877

13. The Great Railroad Strike 1877

14. Haymarket Square Riot

15. Haymarket Square Riot

17. Haymarket Square Riot

19. Haymarket Square Riot

21. American Federation of Labor
Created in 1886
Lead by Samuel Gompers
Only skilled workers
Focused on collective bargaining
Used strikes as a major tactic

22. Knights of Labor & AFL