By: Donna Episcopio. THE PULLMAN STRIKE, 1894 The Pullman Palace Car Company Cut Wages of 12,000 workers CAUSE OF THE PULLMAN STRIKE.

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By: Donna Episcopio

THE PULLMAN STRIKE, 1894

The Pullman Palace Car Company Cut Wages of 12,000 workers CAUSE OF THE PULLMAN STRIKE

President Grover Cleveland put an end to the Pullman Strike by sending federal troops to Chicago to stop the rioting THE PULLMAN STRIKE ENDS

-Supreme Court ruling that allowed the use of court injunctions to end strikes -Devastating to future efforts by labor unions IN RE DEBS SC CASE (1895)

THE NEW IMMIGRANTS

The new wave of immigrants that came to America beginning in the 1880s came predominantly from Southern and Eastern Europe PATTERNS OF IMMIGRATION TO THE US

Prohibited the immigration of Chinese people to the US THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT OF 1882

THE NATIVIST REACTION TO THE NEW IMMIGRANTS

1921 Emergency Quota Act- limited immigration to 3% of the total number of foreign-born people from any given country counted in the 1910 US Census QUOTA LAWS (NATIVIST REACTION)

-Religion: -most immigrants were Catholic or Jewish -Language & Culture: -Immigrants spoke different languages and practiced different cultures than Americans -Ignorance: immigrants didn’t understand American political tradition Competition: Immigrants outcompeted Americans for jobs because they were willing to work for lower wages WHY DID NATIVISTS HATE THE NEW IMMIGRANTS?

The Hierarchy of Race SOCIAL DARWINISM

~ Andrew Carnegie The rich have a duty to serve society. GOSPEL OF WEALTH

The Grange Movement 1875 AGRARIAN DISCONTENT

-Railroads used discriminatory rates to exploit small farmers -Big businesses exploited farmers with high tariffs -Deflation based on gold standard -Fertilizer and farm machinery became unaffordable WHY?

THE POPULIST PARTY

FAILURE OF THE POPULIST PARTY

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