The Gilded Age was a period of terrible labor violence, as industrialists and workers fought for control of the workplace. Workers organized the first large American labor unions during the Gilded Age, while employers tried to stop the...

10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and tests your knowledge of industry and the labor movement in the late 19th century.

Excerpt from U.S. Strike Commission Report. Site also provides focus questions at the bottom.

Although this site concerns itself with Oregon, the issues are nationwide. Article discusses the background of the Populist movement.

The Populist Party was one of the more successful third parties, at least in state politics. Read about its platform on the national and state levels in the 1890s.

Site contains text concerning the APA and the Secret Oath taken to belong to the Association and explains why the group was formed.

Mary Harris, better known as "Mother Jones," was an activist for the reform of laber laws. Read about her long life, which she dedicated to the working class and labor movement.

Read an excerpt from a letter written by Chicago radical and Haymarket defendant, Albert Parsons, to the "Chicago Times" concerning Terence V. Powderly and the Haymarket riot. Also links to other related sites.

Prominent among the Knights of Labor union.

Longtime home of Terence Vincent Powderly, a Knights of Labor leader.

Leader of the Knights of Labor union.

Mrs. Rodgers was a delegate at the Knights of Labor convention at Richmond in 1887. She organized the first working women's union in Chicago and was president of the Eighth Ward Land League and also of the Daughters of Erin.