Relying on a critical evaluation of the accompanying documents and your knowledge of the time period‚ assess the validity of this statement: "The growth of organized labor between 1875 and 1900 was not a radical threat to American society." ________________________________________ Document A Source: From the Depths‚ William Balfour Ker‚ 1906 ________________________________________ Document B Source: Terence V. Powderly‚ The Knights of Labor Champion Reform‚ 1887 We are breaking up old
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The Industrial Revolution was driven by great advances in technology in machinery that completely reorganized the framework of production‚ dramatically altering the lives of urban and rural workers of Canada. The advent of new machinery saw production become more centralized‚ and in the meantime more regimented. While the industrial revolution saw a great boost of Canada’s economy‚ it brought great wealth to few‚ and great poverty to many- leaving many workers on the farms and in the cities in turmoil
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B Q PAGE 353 Write a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A–H and your knowledge of the period to answer the following question: To what extent is it justified to characterize the industrial leaders of the 1865–1900 era as either “robber barons” or “industrial statesmen”? DOCUMENT A. Q: How is the freight and passenger pool working? W.V.: Very satisfactorily. I don’t like that expression “pool‚” how- ever‚ that’s a common construction applied by the people to a combi-
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Some believe life was simpler when women were kept pregnant in the winter and barefoot in the summer. But if you think about it‚ American women have always worked whether in the kitchen‚ on the farm‚ or later in the factory and in the office. However‚ women today feel bombarded with alternatives‚ with choices that must be made. The role of the American working woman has changed drastically since the beginning of the century because of certain factors causing an increase in the number of women in
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seen before‚ it was a four-wheeled vehicle that transported you from one place‚ to another. This is the many of the changes in American Culture. From taking a snap in a Kodak camera to shooting President Mckinley‚ America has been quite different ever since the early 1900’s. Some in a great way‚ and some in an inadequate way. This era was named The Progressive Era. Americans in the first years of the twentieth century felt the newness of their place in history. Looking back on the very late nineteenth
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Are They Really Being Hurt Since the beginning of the industrial Revolution many people have migrated here to Britain to start working in towns and bigger factories. As the Revolution is occurring there have been alleged claims that Victorian factory owners are using child workers. I have investigated these claims and the results are true that children are being made to undergo various forms of hard physical labor. As there are no laws or rules to take action on this matter factory owners have
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the years 1875 through 1900 many organized labor unions and strikes occurred. The point of these strikes and labor unions was to eliminate such long hours and low wages that many laborers of that time had to endure. The labor unions demanded eight hour workdays. The labor unions and strikes also worked to eliminate many other hardships that laborers had. The labor unions and strikes were not successful. The only thing they really achieved was in bringing attention to the plight of the worker as well
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receive full credit. (30 points) 2. Imagine you work in a steel mill in a large industrial city in England in the late 1800s. You live in a neighborhood with other factory workers‚ and share the same living and working conditions they do. Write a letter to your representative in Parliament expressing your opinions on what the government should do‚ if anything‚ about the plight of the English working class during the Industrial Revolution. In your letter‚ include details about your situation‚ as well as
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Technology and Labor unions had a profound effect on Industrial workers in the nineteenth century. As technology advanced‚ it forced workers into monotonous positions that led them to form labor unions to fight for changes in their work. These factors opposed each other under a strained economy where employers didn’t recognize worker’s rights. The growth of technology and technological innovation made the rapid territorial expansion of American cities at first technologically feasible‚ and then socially
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There is no question that the Industrial Revolution was an era of technological advancement and social change. It dominated the eighteenth and nineteenth century and spurred change throughout Europe and the United States as people began modernizing and moving to cities‚ abandoning the traditional agricultural economy (“Industrial”). Because of the rise of factories‚ goods were manufactured quickly and inexpensively‚ and women and children were used as cheap labor sources (“Rise”). The seed drill
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