| A | B |
|---|
| Pemberton Mill, Lawrence Massachusetts | unsafe mill 88 workers killed 116 severly injured |
| Many Northern factory owners | didn't care about the workers safety or welfare |
| Factory owners hired women | they worked for lower wages than men |
| Labor Unions | organized to try to improve workers conditions |
| Children often worked in factories | 12 hour days 6 days a week |
| Strike | workers who refused to work until employers fixed bad conditions |
| Immigrant | person who moves from one country to another with the intent to live there |
| Germans immigrated in 1848 | to flee a revolution |
| Irish immigrated to the U.S. | because of the potato famine |
| Assimilated | immigrants that adopt the manner and language of their new country |
| Americans learned horticulture from | the Germans |
| Horticulture | science of growing fruits, vegetables and flowers |
| Terence Powderly, Irish immigrant | head of labor union, "Knights of Labor." |
| Mary Harris, Irish immigrant | led a campaign to end child labor |
| Nativists | American born who wanted to stop immigration |
| Know-Nothing- Party | Nativists political party |
| Discrimination | when certain groups of people are not treated fairly |
| African Americans in the North | couldn't serve on a jury or be elected to Congress |
