Creating an Industrial Society in the North 18 Learning Outcomes After reading this chapter‚ you should be able to do the following: LO 1 Describe the evolution of urbanization in the United States in the last decades of the nineteenth century‚ and the disparities of wealth that emerged within those cities. LO 2 Discuss immigration to the United States that took place in the last decades of the 1800s‚ including where most immigrants came from‚ why they came‚ and what their experiences
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10 hours to 8. Under successful leadership from Terence V. Powderly‚ they managed to win many strikes in attempts to shorten the workday‚ and rose to almost a million members. However‚ they began to fall from power after a strike organized at Haymarket Square. Members of the Knights of Labor were protesting there when anarchists threw dynamite into the crowd‚ killing multiple police officers. After that the Knights of Labor were seen as the culprits for the act‚ which crippled there eight-hour day
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Those who lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction period recognized that the nation had passed through perhaps the single most significant transformative period in its history. Technology and Labor unions had a profound effect on Industrial workers in the nineteenth century. As technology advanced‚ it forced workers into monotonous positions that led them to form labor unions to fight for changes in their work. These factors opposed each other under a strained economy where employers didn’t
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corruption was that of Lt. Charles Becker‚ who holds the dubious distinction of being the only NYPD officer to die in the electric chair. Due to repeated public outcry over these and many other incidents‚ specifically‚ the Tompkins Square Riot of the 1988‚ and the Crown Heights Riot‚ prompted the creation of the Civilian Complaint Review Board[3] (known commonly by its acronym‚ the CCRB) in 1993‚ an independent investigative unit of entirely civilian investigators (with some being former members of the
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outlines section 1-3 Concepts/Catching us up to 1877 Section 1 • Scientific Racism • Categorizing mankind • Christianity and monogenetics • polygenetics • American school of Ethnology – Samuel George Morton – Dr. Josiah Nott • Phrenology – George Combe – Popularization: Lorenzo and Orson Fowler • The Ascendance of the Aryan race ideology • Count Arthur de Gobineau – An Essay on
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Heaven and Hell: Gilding by Gold Cracks Ninety nine percent of Americans lived and worked in hell‚ while the elite one percent lived in heaven as money became a god to society! Something had to change! The Gilded Age is a term coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873)‚ which satirized an era of serious social problems (Doc 2). The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth. Cities grew as people moved from rural areas and immigrants arrived from other countries in
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After the previous two churches were burned down by the riots Justinian sought to create a new one bigger and stronger (Zucker & Harris‚ n.d). This architectural piece was largely possible because he hired two theoreticians that used their knowledge of geometry‚ physics‚ and mathematical theory to design the
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situated in Manhattan’s West Village‚ was where riots started in the summer of 1969. These riots raised nationwide awareness for gay rights. Forty years ago‚ most states did not have a single gay organization‚ there were no
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production of materials‚ and ultimately deflate the deep pockets of big business leaders. But the efforts of the Knights of Labor were disrupted by those who chose to work during the periods of organized labor strikes‚ also known as scabs. When the Haymarket strike turned violent‚ it led to the untimely desecration of the Knights of Labor union‚ leaving the industry unchanged. Another unionist‚ Samuel Gompers‚ or the father of unionism‚ assembled an extensive group of skilled white workers‚ called the
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47. John D Rockefeller 48. Elbert Henry Gary 49. The Gospel of Wealth 50. Theory of Causation 51. Mary Baker Eddy IDs 1. Mark Hanna 2. Apache Chief Geronimo 3. William Jennings Bryan 4. Wilson Gorman Tariff 5. Mary Elizabeth 6. National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry 7. Frederick Jackson Turner 8. Chief Joseph 9. Black Hills War 10. Helen Hunt Jackson 11. Dawes Severalty Act 12. Mary Baker Eddy 13. Homestead Act
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