Today we did even more presentations starting with David Ratigan (6:3)
Great Srike of 1887
- Baltimore vs. Ohio Railroad
- One of the first strikes
Haymarket Affair
- In 1886 more than 3000 people came together at Chicago's Haymarket square to protest police brutality
- The police and protestors were seperated
- An unknown protestor threw a bomb at the police and they in turn opened fire
- 7 police officers and several protestors were killed
Homestead Strike
- Workers went on strike at Carnegie Steel Company in Pennsylvania
- Henry Frick announced he would cut wages and the working conditions were poor
- Frick hired detectives to stop the strike from happening by entering the factory
- Fight broke out and three detectives and nine workers died
- The plant remained closed
- National Guard of Pennsylvania got involved in July
- Strike ended in November
Pullman Company Strike
- Pullman Company laid off 3000 of its 5800 workers
- Cut wages of rest from 25% to 50%
- Most took home less than $6 a week
- ARU began to boycott Pullman
- Pullman sent breakers to end strike
- Strike turned violent
- President Grover Cleveland sent in troops and the strike ended
Women Organize
- Mary Harris Jones
- One of most influential people in American Women history
- Wanted equal pay for equal work for women
- Created United Mine Workers of America
- Fought for child labor laws
- Lead thousands of children to President Roosevelt's house to protest
Then Tyler Schaben presented his section from 7:1
Through the Golden Door:
- Immigrants came in the late 19th and 20th centuries
- Many came to earn money and return to their homesteads
- Other immigrants traveled to America to escape harsh conditions such as famine, land shortages, and religious persecution
European Immigrants
- Came between 1870 and 1920, 20 million Europeans arrived in America
- Left because of rising population
Chinese Immigrants
- Came to the west coast in smaller numbers than the Europeans
- Many arrived to seek their fortunes after the discovery of gold in 1848 which sparked the California Gold Rush
- Helped to build the nation's first transcontinental railroad line
- Farmed, mined, and helped with other domestic sevices
Japanese
- Hawaiian planters began to recruit Japanese workers in 1884
- Number of Japanese immigrants peaked in 1907, with 30,000 leaving their country for America
West Indies and Mexico
- Between 1880 and 1920, about 260,000 immigrants arrived in the United States from the West Indies
- They came from Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and others islands
- Many left their homesteads because jobs were scarce in their countries
Life in the New Land
- Immigrants were very crowded on deck
- Were unable to exercise or catch a breath of fresh air
- Had to sleep on lice-infested bunks
- Shared toilets with other passengers
Ellis Island
- Gateway for millions of immigrants
- Busiest immigration system from 1892-1954
- Purpose was to inspect immigrants: they got a physical from a doctor to get into America
- Processing of all immigrants took five hours or more
- Anyone with a serious health problem was sent back home
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