1892 Essays

I-81 The I-81 viaduct through the center of Syracuse, NY is one of the city’s defining landmarks. It has also reached the end of its design life, and there are serious arguments about what the future of I-81 should look like. What is I-81? I-81 is the construction of Interstate 81 in Syracuse with the forced displacement of nearly 1,300 residents from the city's 15th Ward. It devastated a historic black community, severing the social fabric of the community and razing swaths of buildings, and with

Adrian Dillulio and Sara Salitan Mr. Jacobs (E Band), History 11th Grade March 13, 2015 An Inevitable Conflict: The Homestead Strike of 1892 The Homestead Strike of 1892 was a defining event for the future unions of the United States of America. The conflict between the Carnegie Steel Company, and the nation’s strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, was bound to emerge from Carnegies’ unjust labor conditions. Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant who built a steel

Brian Nunnelley September 19, 2015 Populist Party of 1892 The United States Government in the late 1800’s had many deficiencies within its system. The Populist Party formed in 1892, comprised of mainly farmers had many reform ideas toward the government. They wanted to change the national currency system, public transportation, land distribution, and how voting was conducted. In the late 19th century the government had a currency issue consisting of people who wanted gold to back up their

seperate areas of the world today. The Olympic movement from 1892 to 2002 has enabled many changes in gender equalities, population, and the advancement on the many specific types of modern games. However, the motivation to impress, practice that leads to success, and the love of the games has remained a very significant part of life in the Olympics setting in motion in different parts of the world. The largest change that occured during 1892 to 2002 was the increased transition of female athletes.

The Geary Act of 1892 has a strong significance within our history regarding immigrants. At the time many Chinese immigrants were coming into the United States western region. The Geary Act preceded the Chinese exclusion of 1882 and was not met with a friendly attitude from the Chinese immigrants. This left behind a legacy that influences our contemporary issues for immigrants, detention, and deportation. As Anglo-Americans moved west across the continent with their ideas of manifest destiny, they

Alejandro Banderas (1892?-7/6/1915) buried Municipal Cemetery. Banderas was employed on the Ables ranch near Artesia. According to bystanders, Lecadio Sabala shot Banderas accidentally, and then fled, taking his gun with him. The witnesses claimed there had been no fight, no quarrel, but there had been drinking. They said Banderas and Sabala were sitting on beds on opposite sides of the tent they shared, facing each other. Sabala was playing with his revolver when it accidentally fired. This is

On July 6th, 1892 there was battle between workers and The Pinkertons for the steel factory at Homestead. The workers from Andrew Carnegie's Homestead plant had just recently gone on strike for bad working conditions and had taken over the Homestead plant. Frick, Carnegie's appointed chairman while on vacation, hired the Pinkertons to try and take back the Homestead plant peacefully. Unfortunately, there was a battle and people died on both sides of the fight. This, however, could have been prevented

The two sources provided presented two different points of view regarding the Homestead Strike of 1892. The first reading is an article from the Pittsburgh Post. Since it is meant to be a record, there is no bias. Frick tries to be logical as he tries to justify his actions during the Homestead strike. He explains the different points between the Carnegie company and the men, such as the sliding scale system. He continues that the wages of the workers were lowered because of the purchase of new

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IS THE GUN THE NEW NOOSE? Introduction Charles Martin, William Steen, Mack Segars, Lacquan McDonald, Oscar Grant, and Corey Jones are all black, and all have either been killed by the noose of a lynch mob or the gun of a police officer. They are just six of the thousands of black men killed by the hands of a white man. Some have concluded that history is just repeating self when in actuality, history has never stopped. The black community is still trying combat oppression. There are still protestors

was an omnipresent issue that women of the 19th century constantly encountered in their daily lives through the form of repressive social discipline, strict gender roles and systemic patriarchal notions (Rosenberg, 1973). Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 realism piece, “The Yellow Wallpaper” clearly illustrates such issues through the characters John and his wife the narrator who embody the reputable physician and his ailing wife respectively. As readers, we become privy to the narrator’s experience

Pennsylvania the strike won the steelworker’s a three-year contract in 1889. 750 out of the 3,800 workers at the Homestead plant belonged to the union. In 1892, Andrew Carnegie broke the union. The union workers refused to accept the new plan, so the plant manager locked the workers out of the plant. (history.com) In the spring of 1892, Andrew Carnegie gave Frick, the plants manager, the okay to shut down the plant until the workers buckled. (pbs.org) The Homestead Strike ended July 6,

The Yellow Wallpaper and Feminism "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story written by the American feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. The story used first person narrative technique to reveal an American woman who suffered from postpartum depression was kept in an ancestral house for a "rest therapy" by her husband who was self-proclaimed to be a "high-standing" physician. This "rest therapy" force her to leave her baby, forbid her

After the Carnegie Steel Company refused to compromise with its workers on the new contract, which increased production demands and announced wage cuts, a violent conflict raged out and the workers went on a violent strike. The Homestead Strike was unsuccessful in its an attempt to unionize all iron and steel workers, but it brought attention to companies who abused power. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers is a union attempting to unite all iron and steel workers and help compromise

The History of The University of Oklahoma The legacy of The University of Oklahoma started the moment, the first president David Ross Boyd stepped out of the train. In Norman,Oklahoma, the year was 1892 and the construction started immediately upon arriving. The reason The University of Oklahoma was created was when Governor George Washington Steele and the Oklahoma Territorial legislature wanted to establish three universities. They decided that one universities should be at Norman,Oklahoma

master of psychological horror, based on the unpredictability of the main character and the gruesome moments displayed in "The Black Cat” (Poe 1843/2021). In contrast, the stories "The Hypnotist" (Bierce 1893/2003), and "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Gilman 1892/2021) contain terrifying elements but lack the strength to instill great psychological terror into the reader. In “The Black Cat” (Poe 1843/2021), the narrator's emotions are unpredictable and change from start to end. Initially, Poe (1843/2021) describes

people for more than a century, and many theories and speculations have been put forth about what really happened on that fateful day in August of 1892. In this essay, we will explore the case of Lizzie Borden and argue whether she was guilty or innocent of the crime for which she was accused. First, let's review the facts of the case. On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden, Lizzie's father and stepmother, were brutally murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Lizzie was the only other

During the presidential election of 1892, the Populist Party had a chance to change the future by presenting their platform. Known as the Omaha Platform, the Populist Party wanted to correct the wrongs that they had experienced from the government. The background, Omaha Platform, and the failure of the Populist Movement to survive, influenced the future direction of the nation. To further understand why the Populist Party’s platform was influential, a background check is needed. During the timeframe

A Voice from the South was published in 1892, slavery had just ended only 3 decades prior, so black people were still trying to gain their true ‘freedom’. Cooper did not only discuss the misrepresentation of black people, but also the importance of education, specifically towards black women

States. In 1896, the league created a literacy bill with the support of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. President Cleveland vetoed the bill, though it eventually passed in 1918. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion acts of 1882 and 1892, which prohibited Chinese people from entering the U.S. In 1902 Chinese immigration was suspended indefinitely. In 1906, to distract attention from a municipal scandal, officials in San Francisco chose to stir up anti-Japanese feelings.