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Workers protest against bad working conditions and wage cuts. Workers destroyed nearly $40 million worth of property. The strike galvanized the country. -
law prohibited Chinese labourers from entering the country. Subsequent amendments to the law prevented Chinese labourers who had left the United States from returning. -
A violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers' rights. -
The founding of the American Federation of Labor by several unions of skilled workers in 1886 marked the beginning of a continuous large-scale labour movement in the United States. -
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 aimed to limit anticompetitive practices, such as those institutionalized in cartels and monopolistic corporations. -
A massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. -
a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. The battle was a pivotal event in U.S. labor history. -
The frontier thesis or Turner thesis is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that American democracy was formed by the American frontier. He stressed the process—the moving frontier line—and the impact it had on pioneers going through the process -
The American Railway Union was briefly among the largest labor unions of its time and one of the first industrial unions in the United States. -
Pullman strike This was a nonviolent strike which brought about a shut down of western railroads, which took place against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago in 1894, because of the poor wages of the Pullman workers.