: Homestead lockout U.S. labour strike at Andrew Carnegie’s steelworks in Homestead‚ Pa.‚ in July 1892. When the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers went on strike following a wage cut‚ the company’s manager‚ Henry Clay Frick‚ hired strikebreakers‚ with Pinkerton Agency detectives to protect them. A gun battle resulted in which several people were killed and many injured; the governor sent state militiamen to support the company. The broken strike represented a major setback to the
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STATEMENT The Homestead Act of 1862 made surveyed lands obtainable to homesteaders. The act stated that men and women over the age of 21‚ unmarried women who were head of households and married men under the age of 21‚ who did not own over 160 acres of land anywhere‚ were citizens or intended on becoming citizens of the United States‚ were eligible to homestead. This paper will show how the Homestead Act came to be enacted‚ who the homesteaders were and the effects of the Homestead Act on the pioneers
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The Pullman Strike: The U.S went through a serious depression in the late 1800’s‚ promoting wage cuts and layoffs. Many strikes and uprisings occurred at this time. Unfair treatment by employers was one of the main causes that led to the majority of strikes and uprisings. They usually ended when the government intervened and stopped the workers from boycotting. One of the major strikes occurred in Pullman‚ Chicago. George Pullman founded the town‚ Pullman‚ for the workers who manufactured the
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In 1894 a strike known as ‘the Pullman strike’ took place. It was destructive and revolutionary‚ involving both the employees who protested and their employer‚ George Pullman. The employees felt that Pullman was taking advantage of them‚ so they joined the American Railroad Union (ARU). This caused a lot of mixed feelings and many people had different perspectives on the event. Several different views can be observed when analyzing this case and its consequences. All of these views can be analyzed
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|The Homestead Act 1862 | |The first Homestead Act was passed in 1841. The terms of this act allowed people to purchase 160 acres of Plains land at a very small price. | | | |In a bid to encourage more people
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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict in the summer of 1894 between the new American Railway Union (ARU) and railroads that occurred in the United States. It shut down much of the nation’s freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit‚ Michigan. The conflict began in the town of Pullman‚ Illinois‚ on May 11 when nearly 4‚000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages. Most factory workers who built Pullman cars lived in the
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that the intent of the Homestead Act was to defeat land monopoly. Many farmers‚ however‚ lacked the economic means to move west and manage a farm. . By this‚ fewer still understood the new type of agriculture‚ in which technology was used to farm the land that the Great Plains required. Instead‚ speculators and corporate interests were able to reap in profits‚ and fraud and corruption‚ and often marked the process farmland for transportation (the railroads). The Homestead Act ’s biggest weakness
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Emily Miller Dr. Soden HI 182 18 September 2014 The Pullman Case Imagine being in one of the worker’s shoes from the Pullman Palace Car Company living in the town of Pullman. A boss from the company comes to the door‚ saying that wages have been cut but the same amount in rent is expected each month. What kinds of things would be going through your mind? The Pullman Case was a trial between the American Railway Union and the Pullman Palace Car Company. The Case was at the very core a clash between
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Description This painting is called Pullman created by Hung Liu. It was created in 2004 and is an oil on canvas painting that is 66x132 inches. This painting is located in the Hunter Art Museum in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. Pullman is made up of mostly neutral colors. There are various repeating shapes‚ Circles and rectangles‚ in the background all of which look either red or orange. The colors fading off of the two men in the foreground drips leading from their bodies down to the bottom of the canvas
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The Homestead Act (1862): On May 20‚ 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act to provide travelers with 160 acres of public land. In return‚ the settlers would have to live there and improve the land for at least five years. This Act caused distribution of about eighty million acres of land to the public. With this great offer hundreds of people decided to pack their bags and move to the west. Sand Creek Massacre(1864): The Homestead Act persuaded many settlers to move West in hopes
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