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Labor in the Gilded Age

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Practice in the 1880s by which railroads would give money back to its favored customers, rather than charging them lower prices, so that it could appear to be charging a flat rate for everyone   Rebates  
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Organization of labor unions that only represented skilled workers; excluded women, blacks, and immigrants   American Federation of Labor  
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Supreme Court decision that said the Sherman Anti-Trust Act did not apply to manufacturing   US v. E.C. Knight Co.  
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Stated that individual states could control trade within their states, but could not regulate railroads coming through them over which only Congress had exclusive jurisdiction   Wabash RR Company v. Illinois  
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Labor confrontation that took place between striking workers and police in Chicago and was disrupted by a bomb thrown by anarchists; this episode discredited labor   Haymarket Square riot  
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Supreme Court decision that said states could regulate private property affected by the public interest   Munn v. Illinois  
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Leader of the Knights of Labor   Terence Powderly  
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Members of a private detective agency that were often used as strike breakers   Pinkertons  
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Strike at a Pennsylvania steel plant; the strike lasted for five months and then gave in   Homestead Strike  
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Founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor; became a leading spokesman for the labor movement   Samuel Gompers  
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Labor Union formed in 1869 that included skilled and nonskilled workers   Knights of Labor  
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Labor leader who was jailed during the Pullman strike for ignoring an injuction, founder of the Socialist party in the United States   Eugene V. Debs  
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Federal law outlawed unfair business practices and established the first regulatory commission   Interstate Commerce Act  
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Strike at a company that made sleeper cars for trains; the company cut wages but didn't cut rents or store prices in its "model town"   Pullman Strike  
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Strike on the Baltimore and Ohio; first time federal troops were used to quell a strike   Great Railroad Strike of 1877  
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Court order obtained by a company to ban unions and stop strikes   Injunction  
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Court case that endorsed the use of a court injunction in a labor strike   In Re Debs  
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