Homestead Strike

For example, the Lawrence Mill workers received higher wages, less hours of work, and much better working conditions by going on strike for months. This was called the Bread and Roses strike. (Bread and Roses article)The Triangle Shirtwaist fire showed how terrible conditions were, which caused people to start wanting improvements. On the other hand, The Homestead strikers were not so fortunate. It ended with Carnegie slashing wages,(again) cutting 500 jobs, and proposing a new 12 hour…

The 1862 Homestead Act made to measure lands accessible to homesteaders, the act specified that men and women over and within the age of 21 and single women who were the head any family and married men under and within the age of 21 who do not own over 160acres of land elsewhere were and eligible citizens or wished to become citizens of the United States were qualified to be homestead. The circulation of government lands had been a problem from the time the Revolutionary War, early…

Willa Cather entwines the historical dimension of the Homestead Act throughout her novel O Pioneers. Alexandra Bergson and her family must overcome many obstacles to accomplish successful farming in the Middle West. Cather uses the main character, Alexandra, to portray the great feat taken in order to continually learn how to cultivate the rugged land and make it into flourishing farmland. Alexandra followed her father’s wishes in taking care of the farm— a task that was uncertain to be…

including; free land for western settlers, having a railroad to connect the east with the west, and the economy, which brought a lot of immigrants over in search of work. Free land was offered to western settlers through an act that passed called The Homestead Act. The settlement of the Western frontier brought people from different racial backgrounds in hopes of free land and to work on the railroad. The railroad would span from the west to the east, linking the two, sparking economic growth.…

Sothern Great Plains in the 1880s. The land was very cheap there. The farmers lived in soddies. However, the Southern Great Plains rarely got rainfall. Therefore, some farmers and there families moved away. However, the government passed the Enlarged Homestead Act. It said that if anyone could hang on for three years, they would receive 320 acres of land. World War 1 was good for the Plains farmers. The farmers were able to sell wheat at a very high price to Europe. However, there was a…

Pullman strike, the homestead strike, socialism, progressives, and the A.F.L caused labor unions to destroy the free market. Conflict between unions and management has caused struggle for power in the U.S. Labor unions gave an effort for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions, while the wealthy were economically taking advantage of the workers to improve their wealth. To begin with, labor unions did destroy the free market by setting up strikes. One well known strike of the…

employees and management were high and union establishment would help protect employees. The Homestead strike of 1892 is a great example how union workers stuck together against the big company trying to take advantage of them. This actually touches home to me a little more than most because this is where I am from. I grew up in Homestead, PA and my great grandfather was part of the 1892 strike that affected the Homestead steel mills. Andrew Carnegie was determined to break the union and put…

the United States suffered a severe drought in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and Kansas. Once a semi-arid grassland, the treeless plains became home to thousands of settlers when, in 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act. Most of the settlers farmed their land or raised cattle. The farmers plowed the prairie grasses and planted dryland wheat. As the demand for wheat products grew, cattle raising was reduced, and millions more acres were plowed and planted.…

Introduction Modern homesteading, also known as the back-to-the-land movement or self sufficient living, is made up of a community of people seeking independence through small scale independent farming, food preservation, and crafting. The above-mentioned were the “modern worker, who dependent on wage or salary, lodged in city flat or closely built-up suburb and held to the daily grind by family demands or other complicating circumstances, has watched for a chance to escape the cramping…

only made the labor unions look like they were the “bad guys”. First of all, he once spoke out about scab workers, which are replacements for workers who do not show up to work because they were on strike, yet he used scab workers himself. Like I said in the paragraph above, the workers would go on strike because they were not satisfied with their low wages and working conditions which were still bad in Carnegie’s steel factories. Secondly, Carnegie pushed for all his companies, factories, and…