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If you were August Pullman, would you think that Beecher Prep was a positive experience or a negative experience. I looked at it this way and I now I know that it was a positive experience. He made great friends, people treated him better, and he got great experiences. First, he got great experiences. He got to go on the nature retreat, dress up at school for halloween, and got to present his projects to his parents. He had great experiences with his friends too. They went to his house, he went…

America: Divided by Class It’s all about the money—who hasn’t heard of the Rockefellers, Carnegie, or the Vanderbilt’s? The Gilded Age was a time when wealthy elite amassed their riches and built their opulent mansions while their workers often lived in squalor. Three distinct social classes emerged as life in America changed from rural to urban and immigrants poured into the nation. The Gilded Age is a term coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), a book…

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A factory in Homestead, Pennsylvania which manufactured steel caused one of the biggest turning points towards the creation of the early unions. In this factory, working conditions were oppressive. Workers would work twelve hour shifts in pitch black rooms. Accidents would occur like getting caught in the machinery and losing limbs. Cases of third degree burns from exploding hot steel were common. Unions would form amongst the workers to protect their rights against these casualties. Besides…

Both the federal and state governments supported American industry. The United States made large amounts of land grants to railroad companies to promote the expansion of rail transportation. About 10 % of the land in the United States was given to private businesses by federal and state governments in the late 1800s. The most important protection which the government gave to American industry was protective tariffs. The tariff became a major political issue in the United States. Tariffs have…

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the US (Rogers, 2001). The employees would work tirelessly, but at the end of the day, they would go home with low wages. Hence, this led to a spread of poverty in the US as well as individuals leading a low lifestyle. In 1890, for instance, the Pullman Palace Car Company decided to cut the wages of their employees in the name of an increase in the company’s profitability. Hence, this shows how the companies in the US focused on ensuring that their employees had low wages. Long working hours The…

broke out to disperse the union members. Authorities charged many of the protester leaders with murder and 160 other strikers with lesser crimes (Bailey 598). A similar incident occurred during the “Pullman Strike of 1894”, in which the “American Railway Union” of about 150,000 members overturned Pullman cars and paralyzed railway traffic from Chicago to the Pacific coast to protest massive wage cuts. Such turmoil was not lightly taken by U.S. attorney general Richard Olney, who was also an…

the beginning and ending of slavery. The following is a quote from Hughes himself reflecting on his visit to the Mississippi River “Now it was just sunset, and we crossed the Mississippi, slowly, over a long bridge. I looked out the window of the Pullman at the great muddy river flowing down toward the heart of the South, and I began to think what that river, the old Mississippi, had meant to Negroes in the past—how to be sold down the river was the worst fate that could overtake a slave in…

“Paying for the Party,” conveys the roles and choices made by college students, specifically female students from different classes at Midwest University (MU). The authors Armstrong and Hamilton observe how the decision made by these students may affect their social standings through out and after their college life. Based on a five-year long study the authors interviewed college women who were living in the “party dorm” at MU. They differentiated these women into three different classes, upper…