Ch.14 caiou dowds

Question 1

AFL-CIO

Answer 1

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of fifty-five national and international unions, together representing more than 12 million active and retired workers.
‘‘The main purpose of the AFL-CIO is to bring fairness and dignity to the workplace and secure social and economic equity.’’

Question 2

American Anti-Slavery Society

Answer 2

abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings. William Wells Brown was also a freed slave who often spoke at meetings.
‘‘The anti-slavery Society doesn’t agree with slavery.”

Question 3

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Answer 3

a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union.
‘‘The American Federation of Labor creates