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United States Economy Knights Of Labor
1,304 wordsDuring the industrial revolution in the United States, tremendous economic prosperity resulted in social and political unrest. It seemed the rich were getting richer while the poor remained poor. The middle class was forged out of the industrial revolution but would be challenged at this time. Large influxes of immigrants would also create tensions among the social classes. Furthermore, textile, steel, railroad, and automobile industries were growing exponentially, employing thousands. The class...
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Haymarket Square Bad Things
340 wordsHaymarket Square Riot, confrontation upon police and protesters that took place on May 4, 1886, in Haymarket Square in Chicago. A strike was in progress at the McCormick reaper works in Chicago, and on the day before several men where shot by the police in a riot at the plant. A meeting was called at Haymarket Square on May 4 as protest against police violence by a group of mostly German-born anarchist workers living in Chicago. The police started to try to disperse the meeting, and then a bomb ...
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American Labor Movement Development Of Unions
1,260 wordsThe American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed as a result of the city-wide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. These men and women were determined to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens of a free country. They refused to be treated like slaves, and work under unbearable conditions any longer. Workers joined together and realized that a group is much more powerful than an individual when protesting against intimidating companies. Unions,...
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Sentenced To Death Hundreds Of People
1,929 wordsAs result of the Industrial Revolution, people in America earned more money, most of which they used to open new businesses and factories. There were now many different types of machines to do the work that people had to do themselves in the past. Thus, machines rapidly replaced people. Now with less people working and getting paid, there were people that could afford what these factories were making. Most of the people working in the United States at this time were immigrants, so they were forc...
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Middle And Upper Class Haymarket Square
770 wordsIn the first part of his book American Anti-Communism, M. J. Heale writes the fraternal egalitarianism of the American republican heritage with its insistence that rights and opportunities were available to all, enabled collectivist doctrines to be repudiated as un-American. What Heale means by this is that the American society was built upon the idea of equality of man, which at the time meant white male landowners. These wealthy landowners would become the middle and upper class of American so...
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19 Th Century Hours A Week
1,606 wordsAs urban industrial workers expanded in the 19 th century, industry and the industrial work force boomed as well. Workers, however, were met with difficult situations that ultimately led to violent outbursts. Low wages could not buy food and clothes at the same time and conditions in the work place brought about countless deaths and injuries. Growing number of immigrants caused the reduction of wages and insecurity of the workers caused unemployment. There were hostilities between workers, emplo...
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