Question :-Historical Analysis #2 | Workers Manifesto(NO AI GENERATED)

Available on Google image: some 40 people (including women and children) were killed in the 1877 riots in Pittsburgh alone.

Introduction:

In Module 1 | Section 1, we started the course by examining the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in West Virginia and the conflict between workers and management for the Baltimore Railroad Company.

For this assignment, let's put on our historian hat and figure out the root of the workers' discontent and how they justified their demands and actions.

Goal(s) of this assignment:

• to examine the grievances and justifications from the workers' perspective during the Railroad Strike 1877
• to read and analyze a historical document
• to use a historical document without quoting from it to answer an essay prompt

Read the following passage from the Workers Manifesto written in 1877 during the Railroad Strike:

Strike and live! Bread we must have! Remain and perish! Be it understood, if the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company does not meet the demands of its employees at an early date, the officials will hazard their lives and endanger their property, for we shall run their trains, and locomotives into the river; we shall blow up their bridges; we shall tear up their railroads; we shall consume their shops with fire and ravage their hotels with desperation.

A company that has from time to time so unmercifully cut our wages, and finally has reduced us to starvation, for such we have, has lost all sympathy. We have humbled ourselves from time to time to unjust demands until our children cry for bread. A company that knows all this, we should ask in the name of high heaven what more do they wantour blood!

They can get our lives. We are willing to sacrifice them, not for the company, but for our rights. Call out your armed hosts if you want them. Shield yourselves if you can, and remember that no foe, however dreaded, can repel us for a moment. Our determination may seem frail, but let it come. They may think our cause is weak. Fifteen thousand noble miners, who have been insulted and put upon by this self same company, are at our backs. The working classes of every State in the Union are in our favor, and we feel confident that the God of the poor and the oppressed of the earth is with us. Therefore let the clashing of arms be heard; let the fiery elements be poured out if they think it right, but in need of our right and defence of our families, we shall conquer or we shall die.

Post your answers (minimum of two50 words/ 25 points).

• What specific threat did the workers make and how did they justify their actions? ----use the document to support your answer but don't quote from it
• What else could the workers have done to accomplish their goals without resorting to vandalism and violence?
• Could the government prevent this violent conflict between management and workers?

Question 2:-Historical Analysis #3 | The Chinese Exclusion Act(NO AI GENERATED)>

we have covered the benefits and the economic problems of the Gilded Age. Workers felt exploited and oppressed by the corporations but instead of addressing the root of the problem, the corporations and their influence on the political system---workers, especially those in the West, blamed and scapegoated their problems on the Chinese.

Let's explore why the Chinese were targeted and how the Chinese Exclusion Act impacted not only those Chinese immigrants coming to America but those who were already here.

Goal(s) of this assignment:

• to learn about Chinese immigration
• to understand the factors that resulted in the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act
• to examine the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act in American history

Directions:

Please review "The Chinese Exclusion Act" documentary by PBSLinks to an external site. and provide a written response (three00-word minimum - 30 points) to the following questions by Monday, June :

• After watching the documentary on The Chinese exclusion Act documentary, reflect on the motivations behind the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act and its impact on Chinese immigrants and American society. Furthermore, consider the long-term effects of the Chinese Exclusion Act on Chinese-American communities and its relevance to contemporary debates on immigration and exclusionary policies

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