| A | B |
| Rose Schneiderman | helped orgainze the "Uprising of 20,000" |
| working class | lower income people who often worked in fatories |
| division of labor | production is divided into separate tasks |
| sweatshops | small factory where workers work long hours under poor conditions for low wages |
| child labor | children under the age of 16 worked in factories for very low wages |
| tenements | run down apartment buildings in slums |
| labor unions | a group that organizes to protect its members |
| strike | a labor action when workers refuse to work |
| yellow-dog contracts | a written pledge not to join a labor union |
| blacklist | a list used to refuse workers a job if they were union memebers |
| American Federation of Labor | union for skilled workers |
| Socialism | a political theory advocates ownership of businesses by workers rather than capitalists |
| collective bargaining | negotiations between employers and employee representatives |
| Haymarket Affair | protest meeint in Chicago in which protesters and policemen were killed |
| anarchists | people who reject all form of government |
| Homestead Strike | strike against Carnegie Steel where violence led to labor unions decline |
| Pullman Strike | Chicago strike where federal troops were sent in to break the strike |
| Samuel Gompers | helped found the AFL and resisted socialist ideas |
| Eugene V. Debs | helped found the American Railway Union and the Industiral Workers of the World |