WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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World War I
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World War II
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the New Deal
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the early labor movement
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Detailed explanation-1: -The AFL focused on winning economic benefits for its members through collective bargaining. As a federation, it represented several national craft unions that each retained autonomous operations. The Knights, by contrast, represented both craft and unskilled workers in a single national union.
Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Gompers (1850 –1924) founded the American Federation of Labor and served as its president for nearly forty years, between 1886 and 1924, and the nation’s leading trade unionist and labor spokesman.
Detailed explanation-3: -Around that time, the Knights also were struck another body blow when a labor demonstration in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, whose organizers included Knights of Labor members, morphed into a riot that took the lives of seven policemen and four workers.
Detailed explanation-4: -The American Federation of Labor (AFL) differed from the Knights of Labor in that the AFL used strikes, had higher wages, and tended to segregate early on. The AFL allowed only skilled white workers in their membership ranks.