Posted by 4Chancey on September 30, 2011 at 10:34am
On this day, we finished chapter 6 and started on chapter 7. We quickly finished chapter 6 with these questions, then moved on to chapter 6.-Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples. Yes, but with some reservations. The forming of The American Federation of Labor. The new union won a strike and got higher wages. Mining, lumber, cannery and dock workers were also working with the IWW and let African Americans work for them. Nicknamed the Wobblies. Great Strike of 1877. Haymarket Affair was an attempt to protest larbor unions. Pullman company strike. Fear struck the hearts of bosses and managers as the labor unions gave more and more rights to workers.-Why did immigrants come to the US? Higher wages, California Gold Rush, railroads, farming, family businesses, factory work, mining, religious freedom, the space in America.-Where did immigrants come from? England, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Austria/Hungary,-What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here? Chinese Exclusion Act, with the Chinese taking American jobs.-Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions? With the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese Immigration stopped all immigration of Chinese.Before we could finish, the bell rang.
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