Congress of Industrial Organizations

their concentrations of workers during the Industrial Era were skilled male workers of Caucasian descent. With its radicle competitors known as the CIO, the AFL faced constant losses to its membership during the Great Depression. And with Franklin D. Roosevelt 's New Deal, the AFL’s orientation of only having traditional craftsmen and disregarding semi-skilled workers would cost them to lose members to the CIO. For the Congress of Industrial Organizations, unlike the AFL, recognized Women and…

opposition to the war. No organization could possibly contain them. Some were Marxists in belief, emphasizing either the revolutionary or the evolutionary phase of that doctrine. Some were anarchists and some were syndicalist who desired direct economic action through the use of the industrial union. Two organizations which had succeeded in unifying the radical movement to some extent, these the nation was most familiar with. One was the Socialist Party, the other was the Industrial Workers of…

wanted things to changed. You can kind of compare it to how many people in America feel about their current situation, but within emphasize in growing. The major cause of the Progressive movement is was social problems that Americans faced in an Industrial society. Many people in the early 1900’s had to work in poor and unsafe working conditions for long period of time. People felt like they have been getting overworked by large companies, and they wanted change. People had to work very long…

in overcoming the problems that confronted them in the last third of the nineteenth century? Around the 1900s , “the United States became an industrial power by tapping North America’s vast natural resources, including minerals, lumber, and coal, particularly in the newly developed West” (Henretta 512). This helped produce an plenty of energy for industrial machines while also providing electricity to residential homes for the first time. This changed the American economy. New markets emerged…

Congress of Vienna was an assembly of 5 powers of the continent(British, French, Prussia, Austria, Russia) , held from Sept-1814 to June 1815 to discuss the state of Europe and how to deal with the aftermath of Napoleonic wars. The aim of the assembly was to create balance of power among the European Empires to avoid future wars in the continent. This summit successfully maintained peace among these Empires for 40 years . It was only after 99 years an all-out war took place involving the…

The Civil War was a significant industrial war that resulted from conflicts between free states, which had already abolished slavery, and slave states, which were still using slavery, in both the North and the South during the year of 1861 to 1865. After the war started only one year, there were important groups of people who had participated as significant forces. These people were women and African-American. They were served as special volunteers and troops to support the government armies in…

The period following the Civil War was prosperous for some and back-breaking for others. This era is known by many names: the Machine Age, the Second Industrial Revolution, or the Gilded Age. As all names suggest, the rise of machines over assembly lines and the graduation of small businesses to corporations made the rich richer and the poor poorer. The Laissez Faire stance of the government during this time led to the rise of corporations during the Gilded Age that allowed big business owners…

about the poverty until the Muckraking journalism exposed in 1890. In order to resolve urban poverty, Jane Addams established the first settlement house in Chicago, and some settlement house grew into the vanguard for urban reform. Since the many organizations like the settlement house were founded by women, the New Woman appeared for their autonomy and equality of gender. From 1890 to 1892, in political cataclysm, nativism in America, was bolstered visibly and politically to reduce the…

they advocated for the same reform, and they were all different individuals that consisted of upper class, middle class, industrial workers, women as well as presidents with a series of separate ideas for the future. The most important things that characterized this age of strict reform was immigration, women 's suffrage, reform of the political system, reform of the industrial system, and the three presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and…

strikes, riots, and bombs were much more realistic fears. The Russian Revolution left much of the U.S in a state of unease and terror. An explosion in New York killed over forty people in 1920. These events had a drastic impact on radical and labor organizations and ignited an intense identification of patriotic Americanism with support for both political and economic status quo. Internal difference over the Russian Revolution and governmental constraint led to the crumbling of the Socialist…