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 Columbus , The Indians, and Human Progress Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island’s beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, […]

Source: Independent 54 (June 12, 1902), pp. 1407–1410. Copyright 2014 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial Review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect

John Lucus Dennis Colored Puddler at Black Diamond Steel Works, Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 8. 6 In 1902, the United Mine Workers union went out on strike against Pennsylvania coal mine operators. The strike ended after President Theo- dore Roosevelt threatened to intervene with federal troops and in a later settlement the miners won higher wages

  Source: Joshua Freeman et al., Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), 11: p. 140; originally from U.S. Strike Commission, Report on the Chicago Strike of June–July 1894 (1895). Copyright 2014 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated,

 Using Primary Sources: Industrialization and the Condition of Labor36 Estimating the hospital cases for a year on the same basis we have the Pittsburgh District annually sending out from its mills, railroad yards, fac- tories, and mines, 45 one-legged men; 100 hopeless cripples walking with crutch or cane for the rest of their lives; 45

IRON AND STEEL WORKER English Earnings—Of father $1,420 Of son, aged fourteen 300 Total $1,720 Condition—Family numbers 6—parents and four children; two boys and two girls, aged from seven to sixteen years. Three of them attend school, and the other works in the shop with his father. Family occupy their own house, containing 9 well-furnished

COAL MINER American Earnings—Of father $250 Condition—Family numbers 7—husband, wife, and five children, three girls and two boys, aged from three to nineteen years. Three of them go to the public school. Family live in 2 rooms tenement, in healthy locality, for which they pay $6 per month rent. The house is scantily furnished, without

MACHINIST American Earnings—Of father $540 Of mother 255 Of son, aged sixteen 255 Total $1,050 Condition—Family numbers 10—parents and eight children, five girls and three boys, aged from two to sixteen. Four of the children attend school. Father works only 30 weeks in the year, receives $3 per day for his services. They live in

Chapter 1 Historians and Textbooks: The Story of Reconstruction10 not necessarily the same. Also, be careful to note the most important facts of Reconstruction that each presents and the meaning each assigns to them. To see more clearly how these textbook selections differ from one another, it would be helpful to write down brief answers

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