Homestead Strike

During the 1800s while extensive railroad construction was occurring, many positive and negative things happened. Some of these events included spreading trade throughout the country, an increase in racist feelings, a rise in jobs for the poor and a lot of fighting with Native Americans. All of these as well as an increase in Patriotism through the idea of the Manifest Destiny occurred because of the Railroad construction. These events helped transform the United States, and link several parts…

thought we have won and we would receive a bigger pay, to support our family. I had foolishly believed walk back to the mill with sheer victory. We persuaded Gov. Patterson that order is restored on the mill. We tried to explain to him that the union strike was to ensure the safety of our workers. It’s just as I feared, government Patterson did not believe us. It was July 12, 1892 the Pennsylvania state militia has arrived to help manage the Carnegie plant. The government that was a betrayal to…

Throughout the years many things have happened to shape how our society sees things. Also how technology has changed not only in improvements but also for every aspect of human life. It is crazy how many major events have changed the world mentally and physically. Many of the bad situations we have dealt with come from someone who was raised a certain way with a certain opinion and will not change for the life of themselves. What is sad, is the fact that the things that started many of our now…

came to him. Following this, Standiford wrote how the two eventually became partners and how Frick came to be essentially in charge of the entire company while Carnegie was away in Scotland. Part two of the book discussed the Homestead strike and how Frick handled the strike by sending in Pinkerton soldiers to their deaths so that the militia would come and protect the factory there. Lastly, part three discussed how Frisk was almost killed and was then ousted out of the company by Carnegie after…

were knocked out by their equal, the offenders’ teeth are simply knocked out in return and the dispute is terminated. In retrospect a subordinate can never disobey or offend their superior in any way. Line 202 states if a person of lower class strikes that of a higher class they receive corporal punishment. Ones position in society clearly outlines what they can and can not get away with and at what cost if they were to step out of…

Indians were moved to areas on the reservation. This made the Indians mad. The Americans had to fight for the land. There were hundreds of Indians killed and beaten so that the Americans could take over their lands. In 1862 the government began the Homestead Act which gave free land to anyone willing to work the land and grow a new nation. This attracted big corporations like the railroad. The railroad owned the mot land during this time. The railroad acquired much of this land by killing…

farm worker town of San Luis, Arizona, not far from where he was born 66 years earlier on the family homestead.”(CCF,25) But that doesn’t compare to what Mother Jones did. She saw that kids were working in mills and living in harsh conditions. Many of the children had missing limbs or broken bones. She also went to Philadelphia,Pennsylvania and saw thousands of workers from different mills were on strike but, many of them were children under sixteen. Mother Jones who has turned seventy-three…

would be when the Longhorsemen went on strike. They responded by hiring over a thousand new workers. Another way business would deal with strike would be by getting law enforcement involved in the issue. In some cases workers would get critically harmed in the process. Chicago Haymarket square someone threw a bomb into the crowd. Police took action by firing wildly into the crowd killing and injuring people. Police have also tear gases workers that would go on strike. Also the business would get…

have it be there and they can use the land freely at their pleasure as long as they are not committing any crimes. Although they got laws passed, acts created and amendments ratified, some of them did not help them exactly they wanted. The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was an attempted that worked, but also hurt their efforts. This act made land available to blacks, however, it gave them bad land that they could not even get to. The Freedmen’s Bureau also got congress to promise them 40…

In the very beginning of American society in 1787, a staggering 92% of Americans lived rurally. However, this percentage was steadily declining and would continue to do so, as Jacob Riis accurately predicted in his book How the Other Half Lives: “At the beginning of the century the percentage of our population that lived in cities was as one in twenty-five. In 1880 it was one in four and one-half, and in 1890 the census will in all probability show it to be one in four.” In fact, by 1910, the…