: 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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people to gather at Haymarket Square. Policemen attempted to cease the meeting‚ a bomb exploded and the police opened fire on the crowd. Seven policemen and four other persons were killed‚ and more than 100 persons were wounded. This riot however was not just a random outbreak during a labor demonstration but rather a boiling over of a culmination of many factors that were building up in the late 19th century which eventually led down to what we remember now as the Haymarket Square riot.
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Compare and contrast the Haymarket Riot‚ the Homestead Strike‚ and the Pullman Strike. On balance‚ what was their effect on the organized labor movement? The Haymaker Square riot was an outbreak of violence in Chicago on May 4‚ 1886. The American workers were demanded for 8-hour workdays in that time. 1‚500 or so people gathered at Haymarket Square and when police attempted to break up the meeting‚ a bomb exploded and police then opened fire on the crowd. Seven policemen were killed and more than
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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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The Haymarket Rally was not a random happening. It was the end result of nearly a decade of protesting and strikes. The beginning point of this long road‚ if there ever was one‚ would be the campaign for the eight hour work day. The eight hour work day for skilled labor was championed by one William Sylvis. Sylvis was an iron molder who was the President of the National Union of Iron Molders‚ when he decided to have all skilled laborers in unions. He felt that it would be beneficial to owners to
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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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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 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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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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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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