USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After the explosion and subsequent police gunfire, more than a dozen people lay dead or dying, and close to 100 were injured. The Haymarket Square Riot set off a national wave of xenophobia, as hundreds of foreign-born radicals and labor leaders were rounded up in Chicago and elsewhere.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In 1886, a national strike for 8-hour workdays led to clashes, deaths, and a bomb in Haymarket Square, Chicago.

Detailed explanation-4: -After the Haymarket riot, a gradual repression of the labor movement came about. People lost trust in the worker’s associations and the campaign. Most of the German immigrants and Bohemians, rather the labor community at large, was looked at with suspicion.