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APUSH AMSCO Main Points of Unit 6 (6.7 and
6.8) with Complete Solutions

Learning Objective (6.7) - ANSWER - Explain the socioeconomic continuities and changes associated with
the growth of industrial capitalism from 1865 to 1898



Wages - ANSWER - By 1900 2/3 of all employed Americans worked for wages that required them to labor
for ten hours a day, six days a week. The wages were determined by supply and demand, and the large
supply of workers meant that companies could charge barely above the level needed to survive. Low
wages were justified by people who argued that the "iron law of wages" was that raising wages would
only increase the working population and the amount of availability would cause wages to fall and create
a nonstop cycle.



Low Wages' effects on families - ANSWER - Most wage earners didn't have enough money to provide for
their families, so soon women and children had to work too. in 1870, 12 percent of children were
employed. In 1900, that number rose to 20 percent. In 1890, 11 million of the 12.5 million US families
averaged less than $380 a year.



Labor Discontent - ANSWER - Workers suffered from factory work, highly structured, just one step of the
process, monotonous and had to learn the tyranny of the clock. They were exposed to chemicals,
unstable and mobile workplace, and changed jobs often. Some people protested through absence or
quitting and about 20 percent of people who worked in factories eventually dropped out of doing
industrial jobs all together. This was higher than the percentage of people who formed work unions to
protest unfair treatment



Haymarket Bombing - ANSWER - On May 4, 1886, 80,000 Knights of Labor workers held a protest at the
site of the first may Day in Chicago. In Chicago there were 200 anarchists who advocated to overthrow
the government. The Knights of Labor held a public meeting ant the police attempted to break up the
meeting and a random threw a bomb into the crowd that killed seven police officers. The bomb thrower
was never found. Americans were horrified and concluded that the union movement was violent and
radical. The Knights of Labor lost popularity and membership



American Federation of Labor - ANSWER - Founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers, they sought better
wages, an eight-hour workday, and better working conditions. This group arose out of discontent with

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