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Homestead STRIKE

Homestead STRIKE . We are going to practice the skills of SOURCING CLOSE READING CORROBORATION While looking at different accounts of one of the most violent strikes of the time. . Homestead Timeline.

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Homestead STRIKE

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  1. Homestead STRIKE We are going to practice the skills of • SOURCING • CLOSE READING • CORROBORATION While looking at different accounts of one of the most violent strikes of the time.

  2. Homestead Timeline • Andrew Carnegie (robber baron, captain of the steel industry) owned a steel mill in Homestead, PA, near Pittsburgh • Union at the steel mill, the Amalgamated Association (AA), formed and won a couple of early strikes • Homestead was run by Henry Clay Frick whose goal was to break the union.

  3. Homestead Timeline • When the union’s contract was up in 1892, Frick refused to break the union • When the union’s contract was up in 1892, Frick refused to negotiate a new contract and locked workers out. • Frick hired the Pinkerton Detectives to provide security and break the strike • When the Pinkerton’s tired to enter the mill, there was conflict. The conflict lasted for 14 hours and left 16 people dead. • The strike lasted four more months until the union gave in. Frick succeeded in breaking the union.

  4. We will look at two documents with different perspectives on the Homestead Strike. • We are going to decide why these documents offer such different accounts of the strike And • Which account is more believable

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