Question

Which of the following labor activists founded the American Federation of Labor?

A. Samuel Gompers
B. Uriah Stephens
C. William Sylvis
D. Terence Powderly

Answer 1

Uriah Smith Stephens was a US labor leader. He led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor in 1869, a more successful early national union. Stephens longed to be a Baptist minister but never entered the field

Answer 2

so it cant be him

Answer 3

William H. Sylvis was a pioneer American trade union leader. Sylvis is best remembered as a founder of the Iron Molders' International Union and the National Labor Union, the latter. so it cant be him

Answer 4

Terence Vincent Powderly was an Irish-American politician and labor union leader, best known as head of the Knights of Labor in the late 1880s. A lawyer, he was elected mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania for six years. so same thing

Answer 5

Samuel Gompers was an English-born American cigar maker who became a Georgist labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. so who would it be

Answer 6

so a basically

Answer 7

huh