UNIONS: KHS.FA2017.Period2 by Robert Shafer

UNIONS: KHS.FA2017.Period2 by Robert Shafer https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8 Answer our journalist questions, and provide a description of the event/ organization's historical significance. Also, include one image that summarizes your topic! en-us 2017-09-25 12:08:07 UTC 2017-09-26 15:01:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Resources: robert_shafer https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/190772375 Use the following resources for your research:
- Knights of Labor

- American Federation of Labor

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3193

https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/1912/labor_problem/afofl

http://www.ushistory.org/us/37d.asp

- Eugene Debs

http://www.history.com/topics/eugene-v-debs

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/peopleevents/p_debs.html

- Haymarket Riot

http://www.history.com/topics/haymarket-riot

http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/the-haymarket-affair/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/sfeature/sf_haymarket.html

- Homestead Strike

http://www.history.com/topics/homestead-strike

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/sets/the-homestead-strike/

- Pullman Strike

http://www.kansasheritage.org/pullman/

http://www.lib.niu.edu/1994/ihy941208.html

https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/1912/content/pullman

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]]> 2017-09-25 12:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/190772375 https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191265784 2017-09-26 14:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191265784 Homestead Strike https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191267792 The Homestead Strike, in Homestead, Pennsylvania, was a strike against Carnegie Steel Company.
1889: Workers won the strike for a three year contract with a decent pay.

]]> 2017-09-26 14:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191267792 Pullman Strike https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191269750 First national strike in U.S history that involved over 15,000 people, twenty-seven states, and territories. The workers were upset with the pay and their rent wages.

]]> 2017-09-26 14:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191269750 Knights Of Labor https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191270694 The Knights of labor was founded in 1869. It was a secret "brotherhood" that excluded membership of bankers and gamblers

because they saw them as part of the society that was underestimating them. After 1885 they had 700,000 members. They had strikes against a railroad company called the Union Pacific Railroad. they rioted on the lines and had many victories over them. ]]> 2017-09-26 14:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191270694 American Federation of Labor https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191271399 -American federation of labor is the movement that gained strength in the 1850s in such crafts as typographers, molders, and carpenters.
-Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was the first president of the American Federation of Labor.
-]]> 2017-09-26 14:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191271399 EUGENE V. DEBS https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191273304 An American union leader. He was one of the founding members of industrial workers of the world . He was from Terre Haute, Indiana U.S. Debs was a socialist that had beliefs on the writings of Karl Marx the German philosopher ]]> 2017-09-26 14:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191273304 Haymarket Square Riot https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191274850 This riot started because someone threw a bomb at the police this riot took place because they wanted to only work for 8 hours a day]]> 2017-09-26 14:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_shafer/frv87kvz6xh8/wish/191274850