HIST 150C3 1st Edition Lecture 7 Labor and the Late 19th CenturyCoinage Act of 1873-caused interest rates to go up-decline in available credit for individuals and corporations “The Great Upheaval”-300 workers walk out of McCormick’s factory on May 1, 1886 and protest-McCormick shut down operations and locked these workers out-essentially, he is not going to fight with these workers-then said he was going to call for replacement workers-hostile actions outside of the factory-police come in and there’s 4 deathsChicago, IL-larger protest the next day in response to the deaths of the works from the Great Upheavel-in a flea market in ChicagoCyrus McCormick-wanted to increase production demand and lower wages-tried to drive organized labor out of his factoryHaymarket Riot (1886)-600-3,000 people gathered to show support for the workers who were killed-Chicago come to break up the gathering and things get violentThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.-marks the turn in support for the organizations Homestead Strike (1892)-In Pennsylvania -major setback for the labor unions because they were defeated so badlyHenry Clay Frick-manager of Homestead plant-against the 8 hour work dayImmigration and the Prelude to WarMigration at the Turn of the Century-European immigration (faced challenges)-1860s-1890s-Northern and Western European-1890s-1920s-Southern and Eastern European-Italians-Jewish Immigrants-Nativism in the
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