HY 104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Textile Industry, Homestead Acts
29 Aug 2016
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During the late nineteenth century, americans were struggling with ways to come to grips with the massive economic and social upheaval caused by industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. Write an essay in which you describe what it was like to be an industrial worker in the late nineteenth century/early twentieth century. Textile industry: tb and loss of appendages. Workers: convicts, children, immigrants, women, men, blacks, whites, etc. Attempts to alleviate problems: organizing into unions and societies (what did the organizations fight for?) Organize all the people, skilled and unskilled. Workers in the company-owned town of pullman, illinois called a strike to protest a reduction in wages. Someone throws a bomb into the crowd, killing many. Distrust towards any laborers trying to strike or organize. Lead to the production of many new reforms. It took many women dying for reforms to be created for workers. The attorney general ordered a federal court junction to force strikers back to work.
