WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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key labor leaders were inured in the riot
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Many Americans came to believe that union members were violent anarchists
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Union members became afraid to strike follwoing the violence
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The fires started in the riot destroyed much of Chicago’s industrial base
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Haymarket Affair created panic and hysteria in Chicago and increased anti-labour and anti-immigrant sentiment and suspicion of the international anarchist movement, throughout the country (several Chicago labour leaders were anarchist immigrants from Germany).
Detailed explanation-2: -The riot that ensued after the Haymarket protest led to the conviction of eight anarchists, who were later seen as martyrs for the labor movement, inspiring passion for labor in others.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Haymarket Riot increased union membership. Organized labor was still relatively new at the time, and in the months after the May 1886 Riot, the nation’s largest labor union, the Knights of Labor, added over 40, 000 members.
Detailed explanation-4: -But on Monday, May 3, the peaceful scene turned violent when the Chicago police attacked and killed picketing workers at the McCormick Reaper Plant at Western and Blue Island Avenues. This attack by police provoked a protest meeting which was planned for Haymarket Square on the evening of Tuesday, May 4.
Detailed explanation-5: -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. Police and workers fired on each other. Public demand for action led to the arrest of eight anarchists (see anarchism).