industrial revolution

what are labor unions

Organization of workers who fight for workers rights

why the need for labor unions

long hours, dangerous work conditions, low pay

what was the most dangerous job 12,000 (deaths/100,000 workers)

steel workers

what was the least dangerous but still dangerous job (350 deaths/100,000 workers)

mine worker

what was the dangerous job that wasn’t the most or less dangerous (850 deaths/100,000 workers)

Rail road workers

strike

refusal to work

what is the most powerful weapon unions can deploy

strikes

scabs

replacement workers for the workers who go on strike

anarchists

no regard for government

Big business tried to convince the public unions were…?

socialist in nature and anti- capatilsm

socialism

economic system where major industry’s, resources and factorys are owned by the public or the workers

karl marx- communist manifesto

argued that the working class was being taken advantage of by the rich business, land and the property owning

proletariat

working class

bourgeoise

rich people/land owners

what did Karl Marx believe was the stopping point between communism and capitalism

socialism

interstate commerce act (1887)

allowed the federal government to regulate trade

sherman anti-trust act (1890)

outlawed any business combination that restrained commerce between the states

legistlation that increased workers rights

muller vs. oregon (1908) Bunting vs oregon (1913)

Muller vs oregon(1908)

10 hour work day for woman

Bunting vs oregon(1913)

10 hour workday for men overtime pay(anything over 50 hours)

comunism

and ideolgy of economic equality through the elimination of private property

capitalism

economic system where industys’s resources and factorys are owned by private owners or bussiness rather than the public or goverment

what was the first federation of labor unions in US history

national trade union

largest most powerful union in the late 1800

knights of labor union

closed shop

only people who are a member of the union can work there

labor unions are…?

violent in nature, socialistic/communistic and anti- american

bais

not fake but only one side of the story

immigrants were…?

treated badly

differnt in looks culture and religion, difficult to assimilate

why were immigrants treated badly?

wage breaker

workers who took the low paying jobs away from American workers

what bill was passed in 1897 for immigrants?

bill requiring a literacy test for immigrants, if they could not read they would be denyed entry

nativist

a believer that Americans should come before immigrants

naturalization act of 1790

1st act that addressed immigration

1849 American know nothing party

1st political party that was anti Catholic/ anti irish/ anti immigrant

panic of 1873

worst economic crisis in America until the great depression

american movement

helped recently arrived immigrants to learn the new culture and traditions allowing them the assimilate easier

1882- Chinese exclusion act

banned entry to all chinese except teachers, students and merchants for 10 years

american protective association 1887

largest anti cathloic movement in country

immigration restriction league 1894

believed that immigrants from southern and northern Europe were inferior to angelo saxons

gentlemens agreement 1907

school board in San fransico banned entry of all japenesse students

result of the gentlemen’s agreement

the U.S and japan agreed to limit the number of all unskilled workers entering the U.S

emergency quota act 1921

1st legislation passed that limited the number of immigrants allowed from certain countrys

Immigration Act - 1924

established a permeant number(quota) for immigrants

Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act)

 Abolished Immigration Act of 1924, establishing a set limit of Visas for immigrants from Eastern hemisphere countries