Homestead Strike

workers were assigned one specific job & after 3 years change jobs. - Working conditions dangerous, exposed to chemicals/pollutants that lead to chronic illness & early death. - Unstable & highly mobile workplace. - Absenteeism & quitting, not strikes & labor unions were common to protest, but most of them just quit. F. The Struggle of Organized Labor. a. Industrial Warfare ~ With lots of cheap labor, management held power In its struggles w/ organized labor. ~ Strikers easily…

The Feud of the Patriot and the People: A Comparison and Discussion of Zinn’s and Schweikart - Allen’s Histories of the United States When traditionally defined, the terms “patriot” and “people” have oftentimes been considered complementary constructs. The term “patriot” is defined as an emotional, positive attachment to a homeland. It alludes to memories of nationalistic revolution, of the Revolutionary War and Glorious Revolution, where the oppressed and exploited “people” rise up in mutiny…

History II Unit II Essay Sheri Ahrendt Columbia Southern University Life was hard for me in my homeland in 1893. There was so much political unrest and poverty. It was so hard to find any work. My family and I dreamed of a future and a fortune that we heard could be made in America; a new life. We wanted out of our homeland and were willing to endure to reach our goal. We had very little money and couldn’t afford to buy a first or second class ticket. We waited among crowds of people for…

Hurricane Andrew scared so many people. There was about one million people who evacuated from their homes and towns. On August 16-28th, 1992 Hurricane Andrew tore up Florida, The Bahamas, and Louisiana. At the time it was one of the worst hurricanes to strike the United States. In the beginning people knew it was coming, during the hurricane Andrew was destroying anything it went past, and after everyone realized what damage had happened. The beginning of any storm the first thing to do is get…

bank. Industrial output was low and unemployment rate was high. People knew that the US have entered a recession However, people did not know that the an environmental crisis was followed by the economic crisis. In the 1930s, a devastating drought strike the Great Plains known as the Dust Bowl. The environmental disaster of the dust bowl is resulted from high wind erosion, low soil moisture, poor agriculture practices, and the replacement of drought resistant grasslands.[1] The dust bowl is…

Proverbs 21:26 states, “All day long he craves for more, but the righteous give without sparing.” Andrew Carnegie, a businessman that overcame a life of poverty, devoted most of his life’s earnings to others. He did this without asking for anything in return. Though he impacted American industry significantly, Andrew Carnegie 's greatest contributions came through his philanthropy, which benefitted millions of people. Carnegie began learning about giving from his early life. Andrew Carnegie…

aspects of their lives this way. Eventually, the Panic of 1893 occured and Pullman had to lay off his workers, but he didn 't decrease the cost to live in his city which resulted in the Pullman Strike. George M. Pullman decided to go to Washington D.C. to inform the government about the strike. Later on, the strike was ruled a federal crime because it was abstructing the delivery of mail. The average idustrial worker 's salary was $625, the average farmer 's salary was $260, and the poverty line…

To what extent were the Populists of the late 1800s a liberal movement? Focus of Editing: Passive tense and Word Choice In the Gilded Age, as in any American political era, two polar views of the government 's role and power existed, conservatives and liberals. During the Gilded age, conservatives, then called classical liberals, held a political ideology that values the freedom of individuals, including the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and markets, as well as limited…

The railroads opened more efficient trade routes, but it also created conflict with the Native American tribes in the area. Indians in the area had already established towns, but the whites wanted the land. In the 1830 the government adopted a policy of separating the whites from the Indians. The tribes were moved and some went west to the great American desert. The Indians suffered illness like small pox that was brought over by the white settlers. This caused 40% of the tribe population to die…

The introduction to Gillion’s novel the 10 days that unexpectedly changed America strays away from well-known dates and explores the other parts of history from constitutional to cultural and answering so very important and intriguing topics open for discussion along the way in just 10 overlooked events in American history. Also telling us Puritans play a major part as “the original sources”. The epilogue, shows us that there are many surprising and unknown things in America’s history that…