Industrial Revolution Dbq

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Introduction The struggle for a better pay and less labor in America started on a low note with less people having the courage to join in. Eventually, many people rose up against the employers, riots and collective strikes stroke the country, as many people protested against the treatment they got from the capitalists. As Jeremy Brecher explains in The Great Upheaval, it all started in July 1877 when many strikes were help across America. The workers halted the operations of the most important company, the railroads. They fought the police, the state militia and even the federal troops or the army. Chicago was a major production that attracted people from all parts of the country. The town was, therefore, a good place to start the strikes, …show more content…

As Oscar Ameringer puts it, “the news of the bombing came as an exceedingly cold blanket for the strikers. Many of the sympathizers started quitting, the weaker Knights broke ranks and the army of the social revolution started melting down5. The police grew more numerous and ill-mannered and so did the anger of the diminishing irreconcilables.” His statement shows that the labor movement had lost the initial energy and will to push on. Many of its members started seeing that the push had gone way too far and maybe many more people would …show more content…

Conclusion The goal of the nationwide strikes was to achieve a better pay, better working schedules and the eight-hour-day system was their climax. However, the strikers failed to hold one common goal. A part of them had the wrong intentions and some had personal interests. The leader of the movement speaks bitterly about the group of the strikers behind the bombing in Haymarket, saying the principles of the movement never supported such actions. Since 1877, the struggle for better pay was getting intense. More and more people joined masses formed, state after state, spreading in all towns. The wake was popularly known as the ‘insurrection’ that saw significant changes in America. The struggle by the trade unions brought the much-enjoyed work freedom in the current American labor market. The capitalists and socialists’ ideologies led to the struggle and went down in history as the major awakening of the American workers in the 19th

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