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Henry & George Cox

Medium sized union. Represented everyone except Asians. Henry and George were black, this pissed captains of industry off.

Tenements

a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. Tenements were problematic. Wooden buildings and each tenements apartment is 10x14 ft FAMILIES OF 8 LIVED IN THESE APARTMENTS.

Knight of Labor

officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leader was Terence V. Powderly.

Monroe Doctrine

was a U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the Americas in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.

Pullman Strike

was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894. It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland.

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

was a socialist Union and they advocated for union members to use violence to get what they want. Many strikes that IWW Members were in were violent.

Samuel Gompers

was an English-born, American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.

Yellow Journalism:

exaggerated news, meaning Not complete fiction, but there were parts of these articles that were added just so they would sell.

Haymarket Riot/Strike

he May 4, 1886, rally at Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works.