Social Reactions to industrialization 689-705

The great railroad strike 1877

-A large number of railroad workers went on strike because of wage cuts.

-President Hayes sent troops to stop the strike.

-Strike failed, resulted in the desire for unions.

The sand-lot incident

-White workers attacked Chinese workers

-Denis Kearney believed that Chinese immigration should stop.

Knights of labor

-labor union that sought to organize all workers, equal pay

-Terrence V. Powderly

-Haymarket riot was the downfall

Haymarket riot

-Occurred at the Haymarket square.

-Bomb was thrown mid protest, resulting in chaos.

-Eight anarchists were arrested and accused of murder

AFL

-American federation of labor

-Gompers was the president

-Focused on economic gains, higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions

-Homestead steel strike & pullman stalled this movement

The homestead steel strike

-Carnegie steel plant in homestead, Pennsylvania

-Henry Clay Frick cut wages

-Resulting in a strike and a violent outbreak

The pullman strike (1894)

-Pullman company cut workers wages but not the cost of living

-Workers voted to strike and joined the American railway union (ARU)... Founded by Eugene V. Debs

The western federation of miners (WFM)

-Promoted industrial unionism, recruited unskilled and skilled workers

-All ethnicities

-Included Eugune V. Debs but the leader was William "Big Bill" Haywood.

The international workers of the world

-Wobblies

-Wanted to destroy the capitalist system and replace it with workers unions that would elect their workplace management

-William "Big Bill" Haywood, Eugene V. Debs, and Mother Jones held it together

-Labeled as Anarchists

what does AFL stand for?

American federation of labor

ARU

American Railway Union

Who was apart of the international workers of the world?

William Haywood

Eugene V. Debs

Mother jones

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Who founded the ARU?

Eugene V. Debs

The wobbiles

The international workers of the world

Who was the head of the knights of labor?

Terrence V. Powderly