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Haymarket - Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room (Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress)

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Haymarket (Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, Library of Congress).

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Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25

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The Industrial Economy: Crash Course US History #23

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In which John Green teaches you about the Industrial Economy that arose in the United States after the Civil War. You know how when you're studying history, and you're reading along and everything seems safely in the past, and then BOOM you think, "Man, this suddenly seems very modern."

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Read the following articles about the Pullman Strike of 1894.

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Read the following articles about the Haymarket Affair.

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Read the following articles about the GRS of 1877.

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Read at least one of the two articles below about the Homestead Strike 1892.

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Finally, watch the video below if you have time before you watch the movie w/the questions in the packet with the class.

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Second, many Americans were appalled at the class conflict that the strike (and others like it) represented. The events of the Pullman strike led to a deepening awareness that there was a "labor problem" in America, a "labor question" in American politics.

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Feel free to watch the short video as well.

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Haymarket Riot - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com

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Find out more about the history of Haymarket Riot, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com

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Railroads and the Making of Modern America | Views

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This site explores the history of railroads, telegraphs, and technologies in the nineteenth century, especially the era of the Civil War. It focuses on key episodes in American history: slavery, territorial expansion, the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad, the Indian Wars, immigration, the great railway strike, the Pullman strike, William Jennings Bryan, and how Americans adapted to modern technologies.

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The Homestead strike, in Homestead, Pennsylvania, pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation's strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. An 1889 strike had won the steelworkers a favorable three-year contract; but by 1892 Andrew Carnegie was determined to break the union. His plant manager, Henry Clay Frick, stepped up production demands, and when the union refused to accept the new conditions, Frick began locking the workers out of the plant.

On July 2 all were discharged. The union, limited to skilled tradesmen, represented less than one-fifth of the thirty-eight hundred workers at the plant, but the rest voted overwhelmingly to join the strike. An advisory committee was formed, which directed the strike and soon took over the company town as well. Frick sent for three hundred Pinkerton guards, but when they arrived by barge on July 6 they were met by ten thousand strikers, many of them armed. After an all-day battle, the Pinkertons surrendered and were forced to run a gauntlet through the crowd. In all, nine strikers and seven Pinkertons were killed; many strikers and most of the remaining Pinkertons were injured, some seriously.

The sheriff, unable to recruit local residents against the strikers, appealed to Governor William Stone for support; eight thousand militia arrived on July 12. Gradually, under militia protection, strikebreakers got the plant running again. Frick's intransigence had won sympathy for the strikers, but an attempt on his life by anarchist Alexander Berkman on July 23 caused most of it to evaporate. Meanwhile, the corporation had more than a hundred strikers arrested, some of them for murder; though most were finally released, each case consumed much of the union's time, money, and energy. The strike lost momentum and ended on November 20, 1892. With the Amalgamated Association virtually destroyed, Carnegie Steel moved quickly to institute longer hours and lower wages. The Homestead strike inspired many workers, but it also underscored how difficult it was for any union to prevail against the combined power of the corporation and the government.

The Reader's Companion to American History. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, Editors. Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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The Homestead strike was an industrial lockout and strike at the Homestead steel mill in Pennsylvania. The strike, which began on July 1, 1892, pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation's strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.

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UE News Feature: The Great Strike of 1877 - Remembering a Worker Rebellion

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first major strike in an industry that propelled America's industrial revolution. It was the first national strike, stretching from Atlantic to Pacific. In some cities, especially St. Louis, the struggle became one of the nation's first general strikes.