WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Question
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The leader of the union known as the American Federation of Labor
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Samuel Gompers
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Terrence Powderly
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John P. Morgan
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Henry Bessemer
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) is the founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Gifted at orating and assembling strikes, Gompers used them as effective weapons to change the degrading conditions of the working men of America.
Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Gompers, 1850-1924 The Illinois Labor History Society put together this brief biography of Samuel Gompers, founder and president for 38 years of the American Federation of Labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gompers served as the AFL’s first president. He remained the organization’s president, other than for one year, until his death in 1924. Under Gompers’s leadership, the AFL became the largest labor union organization in the United States.
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