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Thomas G. Andrews: Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War

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Thomas G. Andrews: Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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Thomas G. Andrews: Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

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Matthew Jacobson: The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 2

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Matthew Jacobson: The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 2

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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Matthew Jacobson: The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 2

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Matthew Jacobson is Professor of American Studies & History at Yale University. In Part 2 of this lecture, he examines the cultural and political responses of native-born Americans to new immigrants, and the effect of global industrialization on the migration of people around the world.

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Matthew Frye Jacobson: The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part I

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Matthew Frye Jacobson: The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part I

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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Matthew Frye Jacobson: The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part I

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The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900 

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The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900 

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federation of organized trades and labor unions

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Labor Day: From Protest to Picnics | AP US History Study Guide from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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In the 1880s a surge in growth of the American labor movement led to the creation of two workers' holidays, Labor Day and May Day...

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John Green Crash Course: U.S. History

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Also, foreigners played an important role. They invested their capital and involved Americans in their economic scandals, like the one that led to a depression in 1893. The U.S. was, at the time, seen by Europeans as a developing economy, and investments in America offered much higher returns than those available in Europe.

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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was a legendary union organizer and strike leader. Born in Ireland in 1830, she migrated to the United States at the age of eight, and died in 1930.

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The first Labor Day parade was organized by Peter J. McGuire, a New York City carpenter, who founded not only the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, but also the English-speaking branch of the Socialist Labor Party, and by Matthew Maguire, a machinist from Patterson, N.J., who later became the first Socialist Labor Party member elected to public office (as an alderman in Patterson, N.J).

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The government, under President Grover Cleveland, swiftly won a court injunction ordering strikers back to work. When they refused to comply, he dispatched more than 14,000 federal troops and marshals. In Chicago, when soldiers fired into a crowd of 10,000, 25 persons were killed, 60 badly injured.

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The union's apparent victory was short-lived. Within days, 8,500 members of the National Guard took control of the plant. When Frick was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in his Pittsburgh office, public opinion turned against the steel workers' union.

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During the 1880s and 1890s, unions sought to secure and retain a foothold in such major industries as railways, steel, mining, and construction. It was in the building trades where the craft principle was most dominant that the American Federation of Labor developed its largest membership.

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Soon, another 10 men would be executed. The Chicago Tribune editorialized, history "affords no more striking illustration of the terrible power for evil of a secret, oath-bound organization controlled by murderers and assassins than the awful record of crime committed by the Molly Maguires in the anthracite-coal region of Pennsylvania."

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After granting the pardon, he said to the famous attorney Clarence Darrow: "Let me tell you that from this day, I am a dead man, politically." There was an immediate outcry. The Washington Post asked rhetorically: "What would one expect from a man like Altgeld, who is, of course, an alien himself?"

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The Knights declined rapidly after the 1886 Haymarket Square riot in Chicago, in which 11 people were killed by a bomb. The American Federation of Labor, a union of skilled workers, gradually replaced the Knights as the nation's largest labor organization.

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the country's first major rail strike and witnessed the first general strike in the nation's history. The strikes and the violence it spawned briefly paralyzed the country's commerce and led governors in ten states to mobilize 60,000 militia members to reopen rail traffic.