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| an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. | Labor Unions |
| Aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago | Haymarket Riot |
| A founding member and longtime president of the American federation of labor (AFL), consolidate numerous unions into one umbrella organization that lobbied successfully for improved working conditions for all tradesmen. | Samuel Gompers |
| political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Five times the presidential candidate of the Socialist party; imprisoned in the 1890s for illegally encouraging a railway strike | Eugene Debs |
| First Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices | Sherman Antitrust Act |
| Violent labor dispute on July 6, 1892, in Pennsylvania. The Gun battle resulted in which a number of Pinkerton agents and strikers were killed and many were injured. | Homestead Strike |
| . a nationwide railroad strike and boycott shut down much of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west in the United States in the summer of 1894. | Pullman Strike |
| Law established in 1883 that decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. | Pendleton Act |
| The Man who ran the Democratic political machine that dominated New York City politics from 1854 through 1934 | Boss Tweed |
| Democratic political organization in New York City;associated with corruption and abuse of power | Tammany Hall |
| Caricaturist and editorial cartoonist considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was the scourge of Democratic Representative "Boss" Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine. | Thomas Nast |
| the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc. a particular instance, method, or means of thus acquiring gain or advantage. | Graft |
| Involved the illegal manipulation of contracts by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier construction company. | Crédit Mobilier Scandal |
| Diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors | Whiskey Ring Scandal |
