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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Research Proposal • Topics of Inquiry: The Chicago bombing during the Haymarket Riot caused uproar throughout the crowd. It was supposed to be a peaceful protest‚ but turned out to be an unplanned event. Many argue that the bombing itself did not help the cause‚ but I will be arguing that the bombing helped the eight hour movement. - How did this event occur? What led up to this event? - What happened to the protestors after the riot? - How did the event benefit the eight hour movement? •
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The Haymarket Affair For many‚ America is not just the country they happen to live in but also it is a place of freedoms‚ liberties and independencies and even a refuge for some people. In 1886 though‚ a group of people attempted to share their opinion in Haymarket Square‚ Chicago‚ which led to a dangerous riot and a series of trials with convictions and executions. Throughout the affair‚ innocent lives were lost‚ people were wrongly accused‚ and the judicial system was revealed as flawed. Throughout
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The Haymarket Affair was a series of conflicts between labor protestors and police officers in Chicago that resulted in violence and bloodshed‚ but it certainly did not end there. The outcome of this incident resonated with supporters of the protests‚ and dramatically changed the course of history for workers; not only in Illinois but across the entire nation. The aftermath of this conflict can still be felt and even seen to this very day‚ due to the construction of two separate monuments in recognition
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was made. This innovation is commonly known as Pullman Strike‚ where an extensive raid was turned down by the federal government. The strikes impact was enormous and had wedged a great deal of our country resulting in dozens of people being killed in violent clashes. The Pullman Strike was a bitter dispute between workers and company management‚ it also had played a great part in the labor movement. The corruption began with George W. Pullman. Pullman was born in 1831‚ in upstate New York. His father
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Good morning/afternoon Mr murkins and fellow classmates.Today I will talking about uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto. At the capital of of poland‚the nazis established a ghetto in Warsaw between October‚ 1940.On November 16‚450‚000 Jews and refugees were forced inside the area of the ghetto.There were 2 parts of the ghetto the large part and the smaller one.Enclosed by brick walls that they made with their own hands‚the jews were separated from the rest of aryan people. People in the ghettos had to
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Homestead Strike of 1892 The Carnegie Steel Company‚ owned by Andrew Carnegie‚ was highly profitable. In 1892‚ the company’s profits reached four and a half million‚ a new record. Carnegie’s company was the world’s largest manufacturing firm at the time. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers‚ founded in 1876‚ worked to gain better wages and work rules. Previously‚ the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers had been defeated at J. Edgar Thomson works in Braddock‚ in 1889
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2. ID the Homestead Act. A.) The government and the white men settlers that were moving west was involved in the homestead act. B.) The outcome of the Homestead Act was that the government legislation increased the size of the tracts available. With their property rights assured‚ more settlers moved to the plains. It was very difficult there. C.) The Homestead Act occurred in 1862. D.) The Homestead Act took place in the Great Plains. 3. Id the Battle of Wounded Knee. A.) The American
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role that the federal government played in the period surrounding the strike was mainly to help factory owners put an end on strikes. According to President Grover Cleveland‚ he believed that the Pullman strike was wasteful‚ disruptive and unlawful (Hewitt and Lawson‚ pg. 556). He thought that the Pullman trouble originated because neither the public nor the government had taken acceptable measures to control monopolies and corporations and had failed to “reasonably protect the rights of labor and
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