term private eye Pinkerton’s business card advertised America’s first ’private eye’ In addition to being a noted crime fighter‚ Allan was also a committed abolitionist. When in late 1858‚ John Brown freed 11 slaves in a raid on two Missouri homesteads and set out to take them to freedom in Canada; Pinkerton raised some $500 and arranged for transportation from Chicago to Detroit. His agency protected President-elect Abraham Lincoln during his trip to Washington to be sworn in‚ and Pinkerton served
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Nations (B) tax cuts for wealthy Americans (C) stringent federal regulation of American business (D) reduced American tariffs on foreign imports (E) forgiveness of European war debts from the First World War The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman’s (A) dismissal of union workers (B) introduction of scrip in part payment of wages (C) retraction of its promise to provide an employee insurance and retirement plan (D) employment of immigrant labor at less than a living wage
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of Bessemer and Open-Hearth Steel. Pittsburgh‚ PA‚ 1903. Print. Wall‚ Joseph F. Andrew Carnegie. United States: Oxford UP‚ 1970. Print. Winkler‚ John K. Incredible Carnegie. New York‚ NY: Vanguard‚ 1931. Print. Wolff‚ Leon. Lockout Story of the Homestead Strike in 1892. New York‚ NY: Harper and Row‚ 1965. Print
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TABLE OF CONTENT I. INTRODUCTION TO AGRARIAN REFORM OF THE PHIL. AND BRIEF HISTORY OF AGRARIAN REFORM II. IMPLEMENTING LAWS III. DEFINITION OF LAND REFORM & AGRARIAN REFORM IV. COVERAGE OF THE LAND REFORM PROGRAM V. RETENTION LIMITS & EXCEPTION ON THE RULES ON RETENTION LIMITS VI. EVALUATION I. INTRODUCTION TO AGRARIAN REFORM OF THE PHIL. AND BRIEF HISTORY OF AGRARIAN REFORM Land reform pertains to integrated set of measures designed to eliminate obstacles to economic and
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Chris Schiller Mr. Fisher History 7-2 April 3‚ 2013 Carnegie and Frick Essay During America’s Gilded Age‚ several industrial giants influenced the economic and political destiny of America with their wealth and power. Among these were Andrew Carnegie‚ immigrant steel tycoon of Pittsburgh and one of the richest Americans ever‚ and Henry Clay Frick‚ who built Pittsburgh’s coke industry and created one of the grandest private art collections ever in his New York mansion. These two men had tremendous
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Andrew Carnegie: The Charitable Captain of Industry During the time period after the Civil War and nearing the twentieth century‚ America’s economy was in prime position to be molded – all America needed was someone to come along to mold it. Businesspersons like Cornelius Vanderbilt and entrepreneurs like John D. Rockefeller were prime examples of exactly whom America needed to take charge of the economy at this time; however‚ there was one man who was not only a self-made steel tycoon and one of
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1. Why does Laskin state that the horrible blizzard of 1888 “hit the most thickly settled sections of Nebraska and Dakota Territory at the worse possible moment”? Describe the dramatic change in temperatures that accompanied this storm. Why were the humble people of this raw region of the prairie prone to take risks‚ even in the face of devastating blizzard? 2. In the post-Civil War years‚ what factors encourage the stampede of settler into America’s heartland‚ which earlier had been thought to
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One of the key parts of westward expansion in the US was The Homestead Act that was implemented on January 1st‚ 1863. This act stated that men and women (who were not married) and 21 or older could apply for up to 160 acres of land in the west. The requirement was that they must live on the land for 5 years and “improve upon the land”. If they did this then the land would become theirs for $10. The Homestead Act favored white homesteaders and they were able to acquire over 285 million acres of land
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hunting‚ or building while the weather allowed these tasks stresses the urgency of each day’s work for pioneer families. Wilder’s coordination of outdoor work and family growth emphasizes the communal and environmental nature of life on the Ingalls homestead. Wilder captures the essence of the pioneer spirit in her books‚ affirming the independent determination of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1841 essay “Self Reliance” by comments like Ma’s‚ that “a body makes his own luck” in These Happy Golden Years(1943)
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Chris Camacho 4th Period APUSH 12/12/12 Fruitless Unions from 1875 - 1900 Late 19th century America was a time of both industrial prosperity and poverty among workers. It was run by grasping corporations and proprietors. Workers found themselves alone‚ amidst the rest of the nation‚ merely individuals under the control of the lavish Rockefellers and Carnegies. Entire families found themselves working 10 hours a day‚ 7 days a week in unsanitary conditions just to have enough money to pay for
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