The leader of the Knights of Labor‚ Terence Powderly‚ believed that the best means of organization was pooling a mass membership from unskilled and skilled workers. He stated‚ "The Knights of Labor extended the hand of fellowship to all mankind." Document A mentions the Haymarket riot in Chicago on May 4‚ 1886‚ but what it does not mention is that Albert Parson‚ a member of the Knights of Labor who was tried and hung for his involvement with the riot. This event linked the Knights of Labor to an unacceptable
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The Chicano movement blossomed in the 1960s. During the movement‚ the majority of the activists focused on the most immediate issues confronting Mexican-Americans such as unequal education and employment opportunities‚ political disfranchisement‚ and police brutality. In the late 1960s‚ the Chicano movement brought the mass walkouts by high school students in Denver and East Los Angeles in 1968 and the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles in 1970. An important civil rights activist was Cesar Chavez
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Mediterranean 4. The other countries 5. Conclusion 6. Bibliography 1. Introduction Emigration was directly linked to the situation in the country of origin. Especially from 1820 onwards Malta had formidable problems with redundant population. Peace in the country developed occupancies‚ which led to unemployment throughout the country. Although the country was afflicted by several diseases like the plague in 1813 and cholera this did little to curb the unstoppable growth in population
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History: Does the past affect the future? Debra Sharpton Devry Vietnam and the 20th Century Experience HIST-415N Traci Sumner May 10‚ 2014 History: Does the past affect the future? History is “The study of past events in human affairs”. (Oxford Dictionary‚ n.d.‚) Why should we study history? How does history affect people today? Historical knowledge is nothing more than collective memory. Historians work to reinterpret the past‚ search for new sources and new meanings in old documents
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Describe and explain the factors that contributed to the development of segregation in the late 19th century. The segregation that emerged during the late 19th century can be attributed to the politics of the Congressional Reconstruction the morals that Southerners carried after the American Civil War. Although great progress was made after the North’s victory‚ the discrimination of black people would continue for 100 years. The politics of segregation after the Civil War begin with Andrew Johnson’s
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Over the course of the twentieth century‚ the way war was fought changed drastically. From the tactics to the weapons themselves‚ nothing stayed the same as two World Wars along with multiple others came and went. The first things to change were the tactics of warfare. Unlike in all previous wars in Europe‚ the two World Wars were not fought in straight lines‚ but rather in trenches dug out of the ground. In between either sides’ trenches would be an area filled with bomb craters‚ barbed
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During the late 19th century‚ the United States began to expand globally and ushered us into the age of American Imperialism. By the turn of the century‚ the United States had become a minor imperial power after fighting a war with Spain for Cuba and the Philippines along with the annexation of Hawaii and some other territories. Throughout the 19th century‚ the U.S. concentrated on expanding its reach into foreign markets and the colonization of foreign territories‚ but it had tried to avoid involvement
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anxiousness or even stress that I imagine many of the citizens depicted in the piece were feeling at the time. The second piece I chose was created by artist‚ Alfred Kubin‚ entitled Die Kriegsfackel (The Torch of War). I chose this piece for several reasons; first of all I find the feeling of it to be somewhat of a stark contrast to the feeling of Beckmann’s piece. Kubin was considered a major symbolist artist‚ who‚ " had lost faith in a fresh and joyous war’ or in a quick victory."(art-www1.com) Unlike
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1. Why did the nineteenth-century southern economy remain primarily agricultural? (pp. 330-36) Slaves made it possible for the people in the southern warm climate areas to make a profitable living off the land. Plantation owners were able to maintain the slave labor‚ which kept their costs down. Planters kept investing in cotton and slaves. The cotton grown by the planters in the south was the largest exporting crop at the time. The planters were getting rich off of their cotton crops. Having slave
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Britain indeed underwent a number of significant social transformations within the 20th Century. One might highlight the struggle for suffrage‚ the deterioration of the class structure or the way in which marriage and domestic relationships are viewed. I have chosen to explore the social transformation which occurred as a result of post-WWII immigration. In particular‚ I shall assess the effects of Caribbean immigration as large numbers of the first post war immigrants arrived from this part of the
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