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Unit 2: Bacon's Rebellion
Angry former indentured servants, mostly from West VA resented East planters. They were very poor, lacking wives, had little land, and were squatting in the west of the colony. They were lead by Nathaniel Bacon. They were angered by the lack of response to Indian attacks. They chased Berkely out of town but when Bacon died Berkely crushed the uprising. -
Unit 2: Stono's Rebellion
More than resentful South Carolina blacks along the Stono River exploded in revolt and tried to march to Spanish Florida, only to be stopped by the local militia. -
Unit 3: Daughters of Liberty
An organization formed by women prior to the American Revolution They got together to protest treatment of the colonies by their British Rulers. -
Unit 3: Boston Massacre
Crowd of colonists protested against British customs agents and the presence of British troops in Boston. Violence flared and five colonists were killed. -
Unit 3: Shay's Rebellion
Rebellion by debtor farmers in western Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War Captain Daniel Shays, against Boston creditors. it began in 1786 and lasted half a year, threatening the economic interests of the business elite and contributing to the demise of the Articles of Confederation. -
Unit 4: Child Labor Strike
This strike was children employed in the silk mills in Paterson, New Jersey, they go on to strike for an 11-hour day, 6 days a week. -
Unit 5: Seneca Falls Convention
Was the site of the first modern women's right convention. At the convention, Elizabeth Cady Staton read a Declaration of Sentiment listing the many discriminations against women, and adopted eleven resolutions, one of which called for women's suffrage. -
Unit 6: National Labor Union
So the labor union formed in 1866 that attracted 600,000 members including the skilled, unskilled, and farmers. It pushed social reform, an eight-hour day, and arbitration of labor disputes -
Unit 6: American Federation of Labor
AFL was the labor union of the late 1800s composed mostly of highly skilled craft unions unwilling to sacrifice for unskilled workers easily replaced by scabs during a strike -
Unit 6: Pullman Strike
It was a strike by railroad workers upset by wage cuts. The strike was led by socialist Eugene Debs but not supported by the American Federation of Labor. Eventually President Grover Cleveland intervened and federal troops forced an end to the strike. The strike highlighted both divisions within labor and the government's new willingness to use armed force to combat work stoppages -
Unit 7: Pure Food and Drug Act
It was the first law to regulate the manufacturing of food and medicines; prohibited dangerous additives and inaccurate labeling. -
Unit 7: Triangle ShirtWaist Factory Fire
A industrial disaster in the city of New York, causing the death of 146 garment workers who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths. It was the worst workplace disaster. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for safer and better working conditions for sweatshop workers in that industry. -
Unit 7: Bonus Army
A group of WWI veterans who were hard-hit victims of the depression, wanted what the government owed them for their services. They marched to Washington and set up public camps and erected shacks on vacant lots. They tried to intimidate Congress into paying them, but Hoover had them removed by the army, which shed a negative light on him. -
Unit 7: Social Security Act
This created a federal insurance program based on the collection of taxes from employees and employers throughout people's working careers. They would receive this money in a monthly pension when they reached the age of 65. The unemployed, disabled, and mothers with dependent children would also receive this money. -
Unit 7: Wagner Act
It established defined unjust labor practices, secured workers the right to bargain collectively, and established the National Labor Relations Board.
