Question

America's Industrial Revolution produced much wealth and leisure, but also much poverty. Tycoons such as J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie earned fortunes greater than most. In the same cities, factory workers and coal miners slaved for perhaps $1 to $2 each 12-16 hour day. Many of these workers were children. With no safety net, many workers just couldn't make it - nearly a third of the immigrants in the 1900s headed back home. Awareness of poor working conditions and unfair wages increased. Concern that trusts and monopolies were taking advantage of workers led to the first large-scale organiz