Chapter 6 – section 4 Vocabulary

sweatshop– place where workers worked long hours for little pay.

Knights of Labor – prominent workers’ union.

Socialism – economic system in which all members of society are equal owners of all businesses.

Haymarket Affair – a conflict between police and union members in Chicago in May 1886.

Pullman Strike – 1894 strike that spread throughout the rail industry.

Eugene V. Debs – American railway union president.

Samuel Gompers – US labor leader

American Federation of Labor (AFL) – national organization of unions that Gompers helped to start