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Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898

Labor in the Gilded Age

Explain why Gilded Age workers gained buying power yet fought employers in strikes, and how the Knights of Labor, the AFL and the great strikes turned out.

Topic 6.7 · 11 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01More goods, wider gaps
  2. 02A bigger, younger, more dependent workforce
  3. 03Organizing: three answers to industrial capitalism
  4. 04Confrontation: four strikes and how they ended
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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