The Knights of Labor union founded in 1869 took the movement to a new level drawing a national membership. The ethos of the Knights was to include anyone involved in production, which helped its ...

perhaps seeking to correct the perception that the late-19th-century labor movement (which backed Chinese exclusion and often refused to include African Americans) was nativist and racist at its core.

He said it was already such an entrenched tradition in the U.S. that when the labor movements developed in the late 19th ...

A: Slavery was intimately related to the major trends [and] developments that we associate with American history in the first half of the 19th century ... the westward movement, the frontier.