Homestead Strike

Kracha and Mike are sitting at the bar when an older American woman walks in. She takes a seat next to them and says, ”I bet I know where you gentleman are from.” Kracha and Mike just stare wondering where this conversation is going to go. “You gentleman are Slovak immigrants, Austria-Hungary born to be my guess.” Kracha and Mike were wide eyed. Their only response was to introduce themselves. The ladies response was “ I am Jane Addams.” Addams a very outspoken woman begins to talk about her…

permitted manufacturers in America to increase their prices. Thus, this made consumers pay more and never really benefited the people from the labor force. During the same year, the Homestead Act gave 160 acres of land to anyone that accepted the idea of cultivating it for five years and paid $1.60 per acre. The Homestead land added up to 50 million acres and only a small proportion of society was able to pay $200 to purchase the land, so the poor was not able to take advantage of this…

• Name of Industrialist: Andrew Carnegie. • How did he acquire his wealth? - Andrew Carnegie was born into a family who believed in the importance of books and learning in Dunfermline, Scotland. After he immigrated to the United States in 1858, he started with his first job as a telegrapher and then invested in railroads. With constant efforts, he established the Carnegie Steel Company in 1889 that was the largest steel company in the world. He made huge sums of money from the steel industry.…

Unions are organizations that are made up of workers that help protect American industrial worker’s interest, whether it be through violent strikes or collective bargaining. After immigration led to lower wages and employees being abused at work with arduous and often dangerous working conditions, labor unions formed in order to protect the hard working laborers in the work field. For example…

The empathy that he had shown to his workers was destroyed once his business was threatened. Pinkerton guards were called to end the strike without any objection from Carnegie and three detectives and nine workers were dead or dying. Carnegie’s facade as an ally of the common man was demolished as his factories returned back to their former states. With his victory, the unions were effectively…

The powerful Industrialists of the gilded age are often negatively connotated, due to the deceptive behavior and questionable activities that they are known to have partaken in. Four notable men of this standing were John D. Rockefeller, monopolizer of the oil industry, Andrew Carnegie, in the steel industry, J.P. Morgan, a financier and banker, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was wealthy and powerful in the railroad industry and built the Transcontinental railroad. Although they were in many ways…

The Progressive Movement was successful in attacking corruption in post-Civil War America. Well first off, the Progressive Movement is the term connected to an assortment of reactions to the monetary and social issues fast industrialization acquainted with America. Progressivism started as a social development and developed into a political development. The early progressives rejected Social Darwinism. At the end of the day, they were individuals who trusted that the issues society…

Natalie Inpanya 12 January 2016 Period 3 Chapter 26 Homework 1.Connect the clash of cultures on the ‘plains’ with population increases/decreases and the ‘bison’ The Native Indian civilization change drastically due to Indians battles and the federal treaties on land distribution. It’s establish territory and boundaries for each different Indians tribes whether are the sioux, crows, kiowas and etc. The treaties were created in a year of 1851 at Fort Laramie and at Fort Atkinson. It were…

eighty four and a half percent more annually. Due to the labor conditions and poor wages workers went on strikes in many different corporations. One of the most powerful was the railroad business and when they decided to cut ten percent from their employees wages in 1873 then again in 1877 while also reducing the number of people doing one job (which intensified the work) the so called Great Strike happened all over cities in Pennsylvania. About nine years later a…

The United Mine Workers Union strike succesfully led to an 8-hour work day The Klondike Gold Rush begins The Spanish-American War begins after the USS Maine is blown up in Havana. The wae ends when the Treaty of Paris is signed, causing SPain to give up control of Cuba- now independent…