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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes. It modernized the United States during the 19th centuries. -
Child Labor Law
Laws passed over many decades, beginning in the 1830s, by state and federal governments, forbidding the employment of children and young teenagers, except at certain carefully specified jobs. -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment, passed by Congress January 31, 1865, and ratified December 6, 1865, states: 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
Labor Union
A labor union is an organized association of workers. It protects their rights. -
Labor day
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. -
American Federation of Labor
The American Federation of Labor works to improve the lives of working people. They are the democratic, voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions that represent 12.5 million working men and women. They strive to ensure all working people. -
Homestead strike
The Homestead strike, in Homestead, Pennsylvania, pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation's strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. -
Cleveland, Grover
A Democratic party political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was president from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897. -
Wage cuts protest
Real wage workers went on strike. They protested wage cuts. -
Peter J. McGuire
Peter J. McGuire is the founder of labor day. He was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of the American labor movement. -
Sit Down Strike
Sit Down Strike began in Flint. Flint sit-down strike against General Motors changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
In 1938, Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act. A United States law which sets labor regulations, interstate commerce employment, including minimum wages, requirements for overtime pay and limitations on child labor. -
Steel Strike
The steel strike of 1959 was a 116 day labor union strike (July 15 – November 7, 1959) by members of the United Steelworkers of America that idled the steel industry throughout the United States. The union sued to have the Act declared unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court upheld the law.
