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    were blamed. The blaming of the unions was part of the reason that two major unions quickly declined after an unsuccessful strike. Different strikes were centered on different causes that the workers and unions were fighting towards. The Haymarket Riot started out as a strike for a reduction in work hours to eight hour work days instead of what could sometimes be twelve hour work days. The Pullman strike started because of issues with wages. The people who lived in the company

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    the street‚ yelling‚ cursing‚ and waving their fists in malice. Sweaty‚ calloused hands grasped tattered pieces of cardboard that read: “We deserve better pay!” “Americans before foreigners!” Even a number of scrawny children assumed a part in the riot‚ viciously waving signs proclaiming‚ “We want to go to school!” Threateningly‚ the mob surrounded the affluent home of a local cotton mill owner‚ a man who dared to hire Irish immigrants as a replacement for the mill workers who were on strike. Torrents

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    The American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed as a result of the city-wide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. These men and women were determined to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens of a free country. They refused to be treated like slaves‚ and work under unbearable conditions any longer. Workers joined together and realized that a group is much more powerful than an individual when protesting against intimidating companies. Unions‚

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    Matt Strigenz Mr. Haindfield‚ pd. 5 1/22/13 APUSH Reaction Paper #10 The chief political issue of the late 1800s was working conditions for laborers. Big businesses‚ having sought to cut costs however possible‚ created horrible working conditions for laborers. In an effort to improve these conditions‚ workers waged strikes and formed labor unions‚ so that they might gain some semblance of bargaining power. However the fight to improve conditions for workers was largely ineffective thanks to

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    one. In 1886 they were involved in some May Day strikes‚ at about half of which they were failing. Tension was building in Chicago where 80‚000 Knights lived along with a few hundred Anarchists. Then on May 4 labor disorders had broken out in Haymarket Square and the police were called. Suddenly a dynamite bomb was thrown that killed or injured several dozen people. The people wrongfully connected the Knights with the Anarchists‚ and the power of the Knights of Labor came to a dismal end. The Homestead

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    electricity‚ the telephone‚ and new modes of transportation. All these factors helped improve the life of Americans and the profitability of businesses. Unions were being formed to help improve the work life of employees. Strikes and riots‚ like the Haymarket riot and Pullman strike‚ protested the unfair work environments set upon them by the companies. The industrial era marked a huge turning point for America with all of the changes going on. Laissez-faire is an accurate depiction of industry

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    Immigration in the Gilded Age In the years following the Civil War‚ The United States changed dramatically. At the outbreak of the war‚ the country had been mostly agricultural‚ although the North was already well on the way toward industrialization. By the early years of the twentieth century‚ however‚ America had been transformed from a mainly agricultural society to the world’s leading industrial nation. Unskilled labor‚ entrepreneurial energy‚ and technological talent were necessary to bring

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    James A. Garfield was born in 1831 in a small place called Cuyahoga County‚ Ohio. He was born and raised fatherless‚ so he grew up strong-willed as the man of his house. When he became of age to start going of to college‚ Garfield chose the prestigious Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856. Garfield studied to become a politician and his hopes and dreams came true as he was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Northern Republican. Garfield was well known as a loyal Unionist and kept his ways

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    20152306 American Industralization in the Gilded Age The Gilded Era‚ a term coined by author Mark Twain‚ is named for the years between 1865 and 1900 when the United States experienced a nation wide industralization. America once was a nation of agriculture‚ however with the introduction of the railroads and steel industries‚ more and more citizens were urbanizing into major cities for the oppertunities they held. This occcurance dramatically altered the demographics of the U.S.‚ socially and

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    The years following the Civil War and Reconstruction was an era somewhat gilded. The Second Industrial Revolution came about with new inventions‚ and revolutionized how factories and jobs were worked. Factory workers in this time period were working in poor conditions and had no power whatsoever. Often they were abused and their wages were cut very low. The mass immigration also did not favor laborers as it made them so easy to replace. In order to fight back laborers would join labor unions in order

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