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American History
The Crisis of Bourgeois Society: The Radical Spector
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Undergraduate 1
09/25/2008

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Share Cropping
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system of agriculture after the civil war; leased out land to poor farmers whom farmed the land and had to give away some of their profit; bound to the land and did not live in good conditions; happened to both whites and blacks
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The Grange Movement
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population; corporative endeavor; organized them for buying and selling in the market; acting together for protection
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National Farmers Alliance
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happened in late 1880's; did everything in the grange movement but added some political things; wanted the government to regulate the railroads and lower the protective tariffs that inhibited foreign trade; promoted federal income tax; proposed that the government hold goods so that they could regulate the market and keep it from flooding
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The People's Party
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early 1890's; farmers party; convention in St. Louis in 1892; raise less corn and more hell; lead by Tom Watson; found that there was a political polarization between the haves and the have nots so the reached out to the impoverished; goals were to unite farmers, reach across racial lines, and appeal to industrial workers
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Tom Watson
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Leader of the peoples party
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National railroad strike
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Forerunner for future labor strikes;wage cuts lead to union strikes; coast to coast; fighting and violence on both sides; railroad traffic almost stops completely; railroad workers did not get much out of the settlement
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Haymarket Riot
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1886; protest that is meet by police; bombs were thrown into the crowd; few killed and injured many; in many papers; in the aftermath the police round up the radicals that were found guilty and either killed or put in jail; poor were mad; victorians were happy
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Homestead Strike
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homestead steel mill owned by Carnegie; wage cuts make the unions go on strike; Carnegie doesn't want to deal so he leaves; hired 300 thugs to protect the mill, battle, steel workers do not get much out of the settlement
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Coxey's Army
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big recession with 20% unemployment; unemployed industrial workers go to the government for relief; lead by Jacob Cox; walked to washington and set up a tent city in what would become the washington mall; terrified the government and they broke up the city; army falls apart
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Knights of Labor
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reformed unions; 8 hr work day; abolition of child labor; called for humanitarian relief; involved in the hay bargain affair
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Eugene V. Debs
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leader of the socialists; thought that the workers should run the market
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American Federation of Labor
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rejected vague reformism of knights labor; economic objectives; wide spread organization, plan B was labor strikes; nothing to do with the radical or socialist parties; objectives were higher wages, less hours, and better working conditions
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Samuel Gompers
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leader of the American Federation of Labor
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