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Strikes and so-fourth
Haymarket Riot (May 4, 1886)
rally for workers turned into a riot b/c someone threw a bomb at the police. 8 people died. No evidence but 8 radical labor activists were arrested. Caused xenophobia
Homestead Strike (July 1892)
Carnegie versus his steel workers. Had to bring 8,500 soldiers of the national guard to end it. It was a complete working lockout
Pullman Strike (May 1894)
Rail road strike, President Cleveland sent federal troops to enforce court order to stop it.
Triangle Shirtwaist factory Cause
Cigarette fell into a bundle of fabric, no fire escapes and no safety measures led to the women stuck on the burning floors
Triangle Shirtwaist effects
Pushed for safer working conditions, the push caused things like OSHA to actually protect the workers.
Muckrakers
Journalists who wrote on the issues in the economy and the painful working conditions
The Jungle
investigated the conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry. (Rats, no handwashing, disease, waste used.)
How the other half lives
Showed the issues in tenements (Cramped, unsanitary, homeless children, fire hazards)
Jim Crow laws
Became more aggressive through the passing of Plessy V. Ferguson.
Urban issues
lack of sanitation, grabage was uncollected, air and water pollution, crimes, fires, wage gap, corruption