1. Thursday October 23, 2014 Mr. Goblirsch – U.S. History
OBJECTIVE – Students Will Be Able To – SWBAT:
Analyze primary documents relating to the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892.
AGENDA:
WARM-UP: Union Membership Graph
GUIDED PRACTICE: Analyzing Primary Sources
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE: Strikes Chart
*****TURN IN ON FRONT TABLE: Inventions Advertisement Poster
Union Membership Graph WARM-UP: (Follow the directions below)
***5 Minutes***
Analyze the graph on P Answer the questions below.
Which Unions membership increased significantly from 1886 to 1904?
What impact did the Haymarket and Pullman strikes have on the Knights of Labor and ARU unions?

2. GUIDING QUESTIONS
How are Goldman and Frick’s claims about the Homestead strike different?
Whose claim is more believable?
Why did the Homestead Strike turn violent?
Do you think we can ever know what really happened?

3. Not a strike, but who was involved:
Strike / Event
Name
Year
Who went on strike & Why
What happened?
How did it end?
Great Strike
Of 1877
Haymarket
Affair
Homestead
Strike
Pullman
NOT A STRIKE:
Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire
Not a strike, but who was involved:

4. Strikes Turn Violent
The Great Strike of 1877
B&O RxR Workers Protest Wage Cuts
Strike Impeded Interstate Commerce
Violence Erupts---Fed Troops End the Strike

5. Chicago’s Haymarket Square Riot 1886
Workers Protesting Police Brutality
Violence Erupts (Bomb Thrown at Police)
The Public Turns Against Labor Movement

6. Homestead Strike 1892 (Pennsylvania)
Carnegie Steel Workers Strike over pay cuts
Pinkerton Guards
Hired to Keep
Plant Open
Strikers Keep Plant Closed
National Guard
Reopens Plant
Took 45 yrs for Steel Workers to Mobilize Again

7. Pullman Company Strike 1894
Workers Laid off or Wages Cut
Strike Stopped the Mail from going West
Violence Erupts-Fed Troops End Strike
Strikers Fired & Blacklisted
Could Never Work RxR Job Again

8. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
146 Women Die in the Fire
No Fire escapes
Ladders Too Short
Windows & Doors Locked
Public Becomes Outraged
Led to Improvements in Garment Industry

9. Not a strike, but who was involved:
Strike / Event
Name
Year
Who went on strike & Why
What happened
Great Strike
Of 1877
Haymarket
Affair
Homestead
Strike
Pullman
Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire
Not a strike, but who was involved:
WHO: Railroad workers (B&O Railroad)
WHY: Protest 2nd wage cut in two months
State governors said it was impeding interstate commerce, so federal troops ended the strike.
1877
1886
1892
1894
1911

10. Not a strike, but who was involved:
Strike / Event
Name
Year
Who went on strike & Why
What happened
Great Strike
Of 1877
Haymarket
Affair
Homestead
Strike
Pullman
Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire
Not a strike, but who was involved:
WHO: Railroad workers (B&O Railroad)
WHY: Protest 2nd wage cut in two months
State governors said it was impeding interstate commerce, so federal troops ended the strike.
1877
WHO: 3,000 people protesting police brutality
WHY: a striker was killed & several wounded the day before
A bomb was thrown, and several policeman & workers died & were wounded. The public began to turn on strikes
1886
1892
1894
1911

11. Not a strike, but who was involved:
Strike / Event
Name
Year
Who went on strike & Why
What happened
Great Strike
Of 1877
Haymarket
Affair
Homestead
Strike
Pullman
Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire
Not a strike, but who was involved:
WHO: Railroad workers (B&O Railroad)
WHY: Protest 2nd wage cut in two months
State governors said it was impeding interstate commerce, so federal troops ended the strike.
1877
WHO: 3,000 people protesting police brutality
WHY: a striker was killed & several wounded the day before
A bomb was thrown, and several policeman & workers died & were wounded. The public began to turn on strikes
1886
Strikebreakers were hired to keep plant operating. Steelworkers forced out guards & kept plant closed until Pennsylvania National Guard arrived
WHO: Carnegie steel workers
WHY: to protest harsh working conditions & wage cuts
1892
1894
1911

12. Not a strike, but who was involved:
Strike / Event
Name
Year
Who went on strike & Why
What happened
Great Strike
Of 1877
Haymarket
Affair
Homestead
Strike
Pullman
Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire
Not a strike, but who was involved:
WHO: Railroad workers (B&O Railroad)
WHY: Protest 2nd wage cut in two months
State governors said it was impeding interstate commerce, so federal troops ended the strike.
1877
WHO: 3,000 people protesting police brutality
WHY: a striker was killed & several wounded the day before
A bomb was thrown, and several policeman & workers died & were wounded. The public began to turn on strikes
1886
Strikebreakers were hired to keep plant operating. Steelworkers forced out guards & kept plant closed until Pennsylvania National Guard arrived
WHO: Carnegie steel workers
WHY: to protest harsh working conditions & wage cuts
1892
WHO: ARU boycotted Pullman trains
WHY: Protest lay offs & wage cuts
The strike turned violent when Pullman company hired strikebreakers, & federal troops once again stopped a strike
1894
1911

13. Not a strike, but who was involved:
Strike / Event
Name
Year
Who went on strike & Why
What happened
Great Strike
Of 1877
Haymarket
Affair
Homestead
Strike
Pullman
Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire
Not a strike, but who was involved:
WHO: Railroad workers (B&O Railroad)
WHY: Protest 2nd wage cut in two months
State governors said it was impeding interstate commerce, so federal troops ended the strike.
1877
WHO: 3,000 people protesting police brutality
WHY: a striker was killed & several wounded the day before
A bomb was thrown, and several policeman & workers died & were wounded. The public began to turn on strikes
1886
Strikebreakers were hired to keep plant operating. Steelworkers forced out guards & kept plant closed until Pennsylvania National Guard arrived
WHO: Carnegie steel workers
WHY: to protest harsh working conditions & wage cuts
1892
WHO: ARU boycotted Pullman trains
WHY: Protest lay offs & wage cuts
The strike turned violent when Pullman company hired strikebreakers, & federal troops once again stopped a strike
1894
146 women were killed in a fire because they were locked in the factory with no sprinkler system
1911
Workers of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in NY

14. Industrialization Costs & Benefits
DIRECTIONS: Draw a 2-column chart like the one below. Then, fill in the chart with each item based on whether it was a cost or benefit of industrialization.
Growth of large corporations - Labor v. Management conflicts
Corruption - Improved technology/machinery
More manufactured goods - Less isolation (regions are linked)
Better transportation - Less creative/skillful jobs
Poor/dangerous working conditions - Improvements in construction techniques
COSTS
BENEFITS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
More manufactured goods
Growth of large corporations
Corruption
Better transportation
Improved technology/machinery
Poor/Dangerous working conditions
Less isolation (regions are linked)
Labor v. Management conflicts
Improvements in construction techniques
Less creative/skillful jobs