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Ussc the Pullman Strike: Its Causes and Events

For Students 9th - 10th
An excerpt from U.S. Strike Commission Report on the Pullman Strike. Site presents questions at the end for study.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Taft Hartley Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Important information and fun facts about the 1947 Taft Hartley Act, a major revision of the 1935 Wagner Act.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Online: Payroll Case

For Students 9th - 10th
This case study requires completing part of a payroll register and journalizing the entry for a payroll. Additional information about unions and labor legislation is included. Additional Internet research is also included in the case.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: The Forty Acres

For Students 9th - 10th
Served as the original headquarters of the United Farm Workers, the first permanent agricultural labor union in the United States.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: T. B. Barry

For Students 9th - 10th
Prominent among the Knights of Labor union.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Terrence v. Powderly

For Students 9th - 10th
Leader of the Knights of Labor union.
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Wyo History: The Rock Springs Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this very detailed description of the Rock Springs Massacre and the circumstances that led up to it. Find out why Chinese immigrants became the focus of hatred and discrimination.
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History Matters: "To This We Dissented": The Rock Springs Riot

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the description of the Rock Springs massacre written by the Chinese workers who lived through the massacre and presented to the Chinese Consul in New York. Included is a report of an investigation of those who died in the massacre....
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Australian National University: Marxism: Socialism From Below

For Students 9th - 10th
Fairly in-depth summary of the theory of capitalism that Marx proposed. Includes historical background of the time when he was writing these ideas. This is chapter 4 of a textbook.
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US National Archives

Nara: Prologue Magazine: The Surprising George Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
This lengthy article from the Prologue Magazine discusses the general state of food production in World War II. In particular the article focuses on thw Women's Land Army, women recruited from both farm and city to grow and harvest the...
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The History Place

The History Place: Statistics of the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from The History Place has a chart with the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. Nearly 6 million Jewish people were murdered. This site is disturbing its apparent accuracy of the Jewish slaughter.
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History Matters: Parsons Responds to Powderly

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an excerpt from a letter written by Chicago radical and Haymarket defendant, Albert Parsons, to the "Chicago Times" concerning Terence V. Powderly and the Haymarket riot. Also links to other related sites.
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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission

Explore Pa History: The Great Steel Strike of 1919 Historical Marker

For Students 9th - 10th
A strike by steel workers in Chicago eventually spread across the United States in 1919. Read about the strike, how was involved, and how the employers turned popular opinion against the strikers.
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Pbs: American Experience: Emma Goldman

For Students 9th - 10th
Tells the story of a young, brilliant, Russian immigrant who taunted mainstream America with her outspoken attacks on government, big business, and war.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Emma Goldman

For Students 9th - 10th
This Britannica biography provides a brief, objective view of Emma Goldman's (1869-1940 CE) political life. Includes additional reading references.
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Five College Archives and Manuscript Collections: Ellen Gates Starr

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this interesting biography of Ellen Gates Starr, friend of Jane Addams and co-founder of Hull House.
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Pbs: American Experience: The Iron Road

For Students 9th - 10th
A good summary of the history of the building of first transcontinental railroad and images of the transcontinental railroad. From the introduction to the PBS video, The Iron Road.
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Amdocs:ludlow Massacre, 1913: Song by Woody Guthrie

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the words of a Woody Guthrie song giving an account of the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado coal strikes in 1913.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Kate Mullany House

For Students 9th - 10th
Home of Kate Mullany, early female labor organizer andfounder of Collar Laundry Union.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A. J. Streeter

For Students 9th - 10th
Canddiate for president on the Union Labor ticket in 1888.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Elizabeth Rodgers

For Students 9th - 10th
Mrs. Rodgers was a delegate at the Knights of Labor convention at Richmond in 1887. She organized the first working women's union in Chicago and was president of the Eighth Ward Land League and also of the Daughters of Erin.

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