Strikes DBQ Documents

Striking American Railway Union members confront Illinois National Guard troops in Chicago during the Pullman Strike(Accessed on 8.30.16 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike#/media/File:Pullman_strikers_outside_Arcade_Building.jpg)

“The details are factually incorrect, because by all accounts Fielden ended his speech before the bomb was thrown, and because the riot did not begin until after the explosion. In de Thulstrup's depiction, the speech, the explosion, and the riot all take place at once. However wrong it may be on a literal level, this drawing accurately expresses the widely held belief that labor agitation, economic uncertainty, and class tensions had turned American cities into social dynamite that could blow up at any moment.”

Accessed on 8.30.16 at http://www.chicagohs.org/dramas/act2/tragedyEnacted/momentOfTruth_f.htm

Front Page headline of St. Paul Daily Globe, June 12, 1892

Accessed on 8.30.16 at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059522/1892-07-12/

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Accessed on 8.30.16 at http://www.library.pitt.edu/labor_legacy/images/rrstereo/rrstereo15.jpg