1. Big Annie of Calumet Vocabulary Words

2. Strike ► When workers stop to protest working conditions or to gain better support.

3. Union ► An organization of workers who protect their working conditions.

4. Negotiate ► To bargain and reach a common understanding.

5. Migrate ► To move from one place to another.

6. Raw Material ► An unprocessed material used in manufacturing.

7. Textile ► A fiber or yarn used to make clothing.

8. Welfare ► The health, happiness, and prosperity of a group or person.

9. Laborer ► A person engaged in physical work.

10. Industrial Revolution ► The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation.

11. Naturalized Citizen ► One born in another country but granted US citizenship.

12. Productivity ► The measure of output from the production process.

13. Citizen’s Alliance ► A group of pro- employer workers who form in opposition to the unions.

14. Supreme Court ► The highest federal court in the US.

15. Strikebreakers ► One who works or provides employers with work during a strike.

16. Shaft ► A long, narrow vertical tunnel into the earth.

17. Gold Rush of 1849 ► The name given to the over 300,000 people who went to California in search of gold.

18. Western Federation of Miners ► A radical labor union that organized miners and smelt workers.

19. Copper Country ► An area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where copper mining was prevelant.

20. Communist ► A member of the communist political party who believe in sharing the wealth of a state and the greater good is more important than the individual.

21. US Department of Labor ► The department of the US Government responsible for occupational safety, wages, unemployment benefits, and economic statistics.