WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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The Great Strike of 1877
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The Haymarket Affair
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The Homestead Strike
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The Pullman Strike
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Detailed explanation-1: -Eventually eight men, representing a cross section of the labor movement were selected to be tried. Among them were Fielden, Parsons and a young carpenter named Louis Lingg, who was accused of throwing the bomb. Lingg had witnesses to prove he was over a mile away at the time.
Detailed explanation-2: -On May 4, 1886, a bomb detonates near Haymarket Square in Chicago after police arrive to break up a rally in support of striking workers. This protest is one of a number of strikes, demonstrations, and other events held by workers and their supporters in Chicago from May 1-4 to advocate for an eight hour workday.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Haymarket Affair involved Chicago police and demonstrators at a mass meeting of workers in Haymarket Square called by anarchist labour leaders to protest police brutality.
Detailed explanation-4: -Radical unionists had called a mass meeting in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality in a strike action. A bomb was thrown into the crowd, killing seven policemen and injuring 60 others.