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How did laborers (workingmen and women) respond to industrial growth? If you're good, you only need one word... Discussion above.
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Was the Populist Movement ultimately successful? Explain. This question is what will be answered and turned in before moving to the next item below. You will have 15 minutes.
 * What We Did In Class**

Let's read Labor in the Age of Industrialization together.

Today and tomorrow we will work in our new table groups to complete an assignment that digs deeper into understanding **//labor's response to industrial growth//**. You will be assigned one of the following. Notice these are links to readings. Click the link you are assigned and save that reading.
 * 1) Sources of Worker Unrest
 * 2) The Drive for Unionization
 * 3) The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
 * 4) The Molly Maguires
 * 5) The Origins of American Trade Unionism
 * 6) Haymarket Square
 * 7)  Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor
 * 8) Socialist and Radical Alternatives

Read, talking to the text, and identify the things that are most interesting/surprising to you.

Read your assigned text, taking notes that reflect the main ideas of your topic.
 * Homework**

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