Grade 8 Fall — The Long Road to the Civil War, the War Itself from Multiple Perspectives, Reconstruction as Betrayed Promise, and the Industrial-Gilded Age (United States 1850-1900)
History · ECO G8 hist.g8.f.eco.labor_movement_knights_afl_haymarket_pullman

Analyze late-19th-century US labor movement — Knights of Labor 1869+ (Powderly + ~700K members 1886, Black + women members) + AFL 1886 (Gompers + skilled craft) + Haymarket May 4 1886 + Homestead June-July 1892 + Pullman June-August 1894 (Debs + ARU + federal injunction + Cleveland US Army) + Triangle Shirtwaist preview

Use primary sources (Knights of Labor founding documents + Gompers AFL constitution + Haymarket trial transcripts + Pullman boycott documents + Debs statements + Mother Jones 1925 autobiography); analyze Black + women's labor participation + federal-government response.

Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
50
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
  • hist.g8.s.eco.progressive_era_labor_reform
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Common misconceptions
  • Believing the federal government was 'neutral' in labor disputes — per Pullman Strike 1894 federal injunction + US Army deployment by President Cleveland the federal government acted on side of capital
  • Believing labor organizing was exclusively white-male — Knights of Labor admitted Black + women members; women textile workers struck repeatedly