SSUSH12 The student will analyze important consequences of American industrial growth.

The Growth of the American Labor Movement

Preview & Processing Can you describe Ellis Island? What was the immigrant impact of the United States both in urban and rural culture? Who was Samuel Gompers? Can you describe the Pullman strike of 1894? How did industrial growth affect the population of the West and what was the impact on Native Americans? Explain the situation with Sitting Bull and the Battle of Wounded Knee.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door." by Emma Lazarus.

Ellis Island, New York Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was the location of the Immigration Depot from January 1, 1892 - November 12, 1954

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me

The Great Hall then

Child Labor

Child Labor

Labor Unrest: 1870-1900

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

The American Federation of Labor: 1886 Samuel Gompers

How the AF of L Would Help the Workers Catered to the skilled worker. Represented workers in matters of national legislation. Maintained a national strike fund. Evangelized the cause of unionism. Prevented disputes among the many craft unions. Mediated disputes between management and labor. Pushed for closed shops.

Making the Connection What rights did the American worker have prior to the AF of L? Why did big business fear unions? Why were anarchy and labor unions linked together? What is a closed shop?

A “Company Town”: Pullman, IL

Pullman Cars A Pullman porter

The Pullman Strike of 1894

President Grover Cleveland If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered!

Government by injunction! The Pullman Strike of 1894 Government by injunction!

Chief Sitting Bull Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876

General George Custard

Wounded Knee Massacre or the Battle of Wounded Knee Last armed conflict between the Great Sioux Nation and the United States of America. On December 29, 1890, 365 troops of the US 7th Calvary, surrounded an encampment Lakota and Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek. South Dakota The Army had orders to disarm them, ensure their compliance and escort the Sioux to the railroad for transport to Omaha Nebraska

During the process of disarming the Sioux, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote could not hear the order to give up his rifle. A scuffle over Black Coyote's rifle escalated into an all-out battle, with those few Sioux warriors who still had weapons shooting at the 7th Cavalry, and the 7th Cavalry opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their own fellow troopers.

The 7th Cavalry quickly suppressed the Sioux fire, and the surviving Sioux fled, but US cavalrymen pursued and killed many who were unarmed. By the time it was over, about 146 men, women, and children of the Lakota Sioux had been killed. Twenty-five troopers also died, some believed to have been the victims of friendly fire as the shooting took place at point blank range in chaotic conditions. Around 150 Lakota are believed to have fled the chaos, with an unknown number later dying from hypothermia

Death from hypothermia

Wounded Knee Memorial