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Strikes and so-fourth

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Haymarket Riot (May 4, 1886)

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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

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Homestead Strike (July 1892)

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Carnegie versus his steel workers. Had to bring 8,500 soldiers of the national guard to end it. It was a complete working lockout

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Pullman Strike (May 1894)

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Rail road strike, President Cleveland sent federal troops to enforce court order to stop it.

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Triangle Shirtwaist factory Cause

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Cigarette fell into a bundle of fabric, no fire escapes and no safety measures led to the women stuck on the burning floors

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Triangle Shirtwaist effects

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Pushed for safer working conditions, the push caused things like OSHA to actually protect the workers.

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Muckrakers

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Journalists who wrote on the issues in the economy and the painful working conditions

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The Jungle

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investigated the conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry. (Rats, no handwashing, disease, waste used.)

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How the other half lives

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Showed the issues in tenements (Cramped, unsanitary, homeless children, fire hazards)

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Jim Crow laws

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Became more aggressive through the passing of Plessy V. Ferguson.

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Urban issues

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lack of sanitation, grabage was uncollected, air and water pollution, crimes, fires, wage gap, corruption

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