Imigration And The Labor Movment Flashcards
Salad bowl
Everyone who comes from all different backgrounds mix together but retain their individual characteristics from their home
Cultures
Melting pot
Everyone comes from
Different backgrounds and blend into one almost homogeneous people, everyone assimilates and becomes an American
Knights of labor was founded by who?
What year?
Terrence Powderly
1869
Knights of labor represented five types of workers
1) unskilled
2) skilled
3) woman
4) blacks
5) immigrants
Movement to have the 8 hour work day began in what state on what date
Chicago may 4 1886
May 4 1886 a bomb goes off at a rally @ ______ kills __ and police kill___
Hay market square
8 killed by bomb
7 shot by police
Over next couple days after hay market bombing police round up ___ suspects of what nationalitieso
7 Germans
1 American
@ trial no real evidence
How many men are found guilty ?
What are their sentences
All 8 found guilty
7 death sentence
1 gets 15 years
In the hay market martyrs case the state eventual a says what?
How many take the deal?
What happins to the rest
State says: admit your guilt and get life in prison instead of dealth row.
2 take the deal
1 kills himself
4 are hung
1893 Chicago elects new governer: ____
John Altgeld
John Altgeld does what about the haymarket
Pardons the 3 men still alive
What year did the haymarket rally occur
1886
Year John Altgeld becomes governor of Illinois
1893
Homestead strike year___ at who’s plant run by who in what state
1887 carnegie’s plant run by Henry Frick in Pennsylvania
What things does Frick do when homestead strike breaks out
First closes factory- see who runs out of money first
Then brings on strike breakers
Then brings in scabs