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- southern and eastern europe
- Italians, Pollacks, Russians, Checs, etc
- Catholics and Jews |
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- led by Terence V. Powderly
- accepted all "producers" aka everyone
- disappeared after he Hay Market Affair
- successful with their call for the creation of a federal Department of Labor |
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- Chicago 1886, protest against McCormick Reaper Works
- a bomb was throw and exploded killing 7 policmen
- 8 anarchists were tried and convicted
- broke up the Knights of Labor |
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- Pittsburg 1892 at the Homestead Plant
- own by Carnegie, but Henry Clay Frick was in charge
- Frick wanted to break the union after 3 months of stalmate negotiations
- Frick offers ultimatum: except wage cuts or be fired
- Pinkerton guards were hired, a day long gun fight, and 8000 troops sent to crush the strike and the union by the PA governor |
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- Chicago, Pullman Palace Car Company
- depression sparked strike
- workers joined the American Railway Union (ARU) led by Debs
- General Managers Association (GMA) hired strikebreakers and asked judicial and federal aid
- Cleveland sent troops to crush the strike b/c it was decided to be a "conspiracy in restraint of trade" |
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| AFL (American Federation of Labor) |
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- led by Samuel Gompers
- alliance of separate craft unions, only accepted skilled workers
- believed that skilled workers should put their specific occupational interests first so they could control the supply of skilled labor and keep wages up |
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- organized railroad workers and established the American Railway Union (ARU)
- combined several of the separate railroad brotherhoods to form the ARU
- won a strike against the Great American Railroad and aided the workers of the Pullman Strike |
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-honest, reformer
- first Democrat in 28 yrs as president
- 22nd and 24th president
- enemies: CW veterans (cut pensions for those who didn't need them, hired a substitute when drafted), fathered a child out of wed-lock (never denied & gave support) |
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- Carnegie's thesis on the administration of wealth
- wealthy man's duty to sue his money to help the common good |
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- Herbert Spencer took Darwin's idea of "survival of the fittest"
- applied to society
- fittest were the successful and the weak were the poor |
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- it tied salvation to social betterment and taught that you are to help out those fortunate
- Jane Addams followed this philsophy |
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- Founded the Hull House in Chicago
- it was a settlement house that helped out the new immigrants |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony |
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- Stanton held the first woman's suffrage meeting at Seneca Falls, NY
- Stanton established National Woman Suffrage Association
- Cady gave Anthony the Association and she merged it with the American Woman's Suffrage Association --> NAWSA |
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-outlawed any contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint from trade
- very vague, no specific outline of what violates this act |
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- reasons for imperialism
1. raw materials 2. cheap/free labor
3. invest excess capital 4. control of the market
5. shipping easier (refueling coal stations)
6. power & pride 7. military strategy
8. spreading "civilization" 9. White Man's Burden (duty to share religion)
- practice of building an empire by taking colonies |
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- wrote "Influence of Sea Power on History"
- explained how in order to have great power you need a great navy
- influenced policy worldwide |
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- yellow journalists
- stirred public support for the Cuban rebels against Spain |
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| Theodore Roosevelt (Pre-Presidency) |
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-assistant secretary of a navy
- wanted a war with Spain
- resigned from the navy and established a calvary regiment (Rough Riders)
- San Juan Hill w/ Rough Riders and won the battle and became a hero |
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| - Congress stated that the United States had no intention of annexing |
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- led the rebellion against Spain in the Philippines
- surrendered to the Americans at the Battle of Manilla Bay |
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