Topic: Primary Source History Paper #1
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you analyze these documents in light of what else you know about the context of the Pullman Strike as well as Big Business and Labor more generally in the Gilded Age.
Documents:
Pullman Strike – Encyclopedia Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/event/Pullman-Strike/The-injunction
By Melvin I. Urofsky
George Pullman’s Response to Striking Workers
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DEBS WILDLY TALKS CIVIL WAR.: First Shot from Soldiers, He Says, Will Cause Revolution
Letters to and from Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld
Regarding the Pullman Strike of 1894
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you analyze these documents in light of what else you know about the context of the Pullman Strike as well as Big Business and Labor more generally in the Gilded Age.
