The platform proposed nationalizing the country’s railroad and telegraph systems to ensure that essential services would be run in the interests of the people rather than for the profits of wealthy investors.
I agree with this movement. To help improve America and the life of its people it should focus on what is best for the people.
100,000-plus migrants who settled in the Rocky Mountains were ultimately more valuable to the region’s development than the gold they came to find.
I agree with this. With America developing at this time the boom of people coming from the gold rush played a significant role in the development of America.
ialist Party and, in his fourth run for president in 1912, Eugene V. Debs received almost one million votes, or 6 percent of the total.
I question why people vote for a third party? There has never been a president elected from the third party so why wouldn't they vote one or the other? Is it to make a statement about what they believe in?
all men and women received fair wages for their labor and a share of profits.
When they talked about fair wage did they mean equal wages between men and women? Or did they want men to still be paid more?
d “pure and simple trade unionism,” a program that aimed for practical gains such as higher wages, fewer hours, and safer conditions. The AFL advocated a less aggressive approach that tried to avoid strikes.
I believe AFL had a smart way of advocating for better work life. I wonder the differenced in success between peaceful and aggressive protests for what you want.
American farmers also lashed out against the inequalities of the Gilded Age and denounced political corruption for enabling economic theft.
During the Gilded Age, was everyone struggling with working conditions and pay besides the top 10%?
. After the Exclusion Act, several western mining communities where whites blamed Chinese workers for a lack of jobs took the law into their own hands. Massacres of Chinese people in Rock Springs and Hell’s Canyon, Wyoming, in 1885 and 1887 resulted in twenty-eight and thirty-four deaths, respectively.
I find it interesting how far America has come in the last century and a half. How we used to have things like the Exclusion Act and Jim Crow policies.
Police opened fire on the crowd, killing four and wounding up to seventy protestors
I am interested in if the police officers saw results in the violence they took. As well as whoever through the bomb. If they thought violence was the way to get their voice heard?
The militia fired into the crowd, killing ten.
When the militia fired into the crowd during these protests what did they think it would resolve the issue of these protests? Or was it just to scare them away? I'm confused on what they thought this would resolve.