Andrew Carnegie and his Theories of Wealth – “Wealth” – essay arguing the wealth had a god given responsibility to care out charity to benefit society, put over $350M into support for libraries, universities, and other public institutions 9. Haymarket Incident – Knights of Labor participated in a Chicago strike to achieve an 8 hr workday. Police attempted to break up meeting, someone threw bomb that killed 7 police officers. 8 anarchists were sentenced to death. Led Ams to believe the labor mvmt was radical and violent and also led to the decline of the Knights of
Using my detective reasoning and the evidence found at the scene of the crime, I have deducted that the suspects Louise Hume and Gary Adams are indeed the culprits of this murder. My educated guess is that Louise Hume is the murderer and that Gary Adams served as an accomplice. The couple claim that Gary and Clark were hanging out at 10pm drinking and that Louise Hume arrived at 12.30am to find Gary and Clark arguing, Clark then supposedly pulls a knife on Louise but Gary tries to stop him and in the scuffle stabs Clark in self-defense, Gary then tried to drag Clark towards the road to help flag down a motorist to help. Many elements of their story don’t add up, they said that Clark and Gary were drinking at 10pm and that when Louise arrived they were already arguing, even though there was 3 chairs found at the scene, a discarded lipstick container and an empty tequila bottle with lipstick and DNA belonging to Louise Hume on it, the guys would have already finished drinking the bottle before 12.30am and they also said that Gary and Clark were already arguing by the time that Louise arrived and that was when he drew a
McCarthy came on the scene. Hearings and investigations occurred in the late 40s. But Schrecker provides a robust detail chronological account the early stages of political repression of the left. Although the author can trace back all the way to the Mayflower compact and otherness of enslaved Africans, Anti-Communism in its modern form begins with the Paris commune of 1870-71, and the great railroad strikes of 1877. But it is the Haymarket tragedy of 1886 where anarchists and a bomb exploded killing police officers that we find the inter connection of local police agencies, robber baron business leaders, cash payoffs to law enforcement officers and the privileging American values of family flag and church as the beginning stages of a network towards the repression of the political left.
From The New York Times Amanda Knox, an American college student, was convicted in 2009 of the murder of her British housemate in Perugia, Italy. On Oct. 3, 2011, an Italian appellate court overturned the homicide convictions of Ms. Knox[->0] and a co-defendant and ordered them freed, ending a sensationally lurid trial that had made Ms. Knox notorious on both sides of the Atlantic. An appellate court jury of eight Italians, which included two judges, delivered their verdict after more than 11 hours of deliberations. Ms. Knox had been sentenced to 26 years in prison for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, of Surrey, England; her co-defendant and former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, had received a 25 year sentence. Ms. Knox had
Al CaponeAl Capone who was born on January 17th 1899, his family where Italian immigrants and he was one of nine children. He was expelled from school aged 14 after hitting a female teacher; it was then that he first got involved in organised crime when Johnny Torrio became his ‘mentor.’ After small stints with Gangs; Junior Forty Thieves and the Bowery Boys he proceeded to join the powerful Five Points gang based in Lower Manhattan it was during this time he got his now famous scars on his face after insulting a female patron working as a Bouncer. Capone left New York for Chicago in 1923. In 1925 Capone gained control of the Five Points Gang after its previous Boss was injured severely. When prohibiton was introduced Capone gained a vast amount
However, since then, the workers were forced to work 10 hours a day, 12 hours, or 14 hours, which makes the law exists in name only. Because the head of the state cooled to this and showed unfriendly attitude, a strike that for 8 hours of work began. A study found an important cause of riot (Shelley, 2007) In April, 1886, 250,000 workers took part in the May Day protests. The protests was organized by non-governmental international workers’ union in Chicago where is the center of activity. The businessmen and government felt fear for this revolution, head of the local business requirements to increase the number of the police and the army.
1865-1914 * National Labour Union ( 8 hour day, banking reform, end convict labour, 30,000 members, FAILED) * Knights of Labour (allowed all trades, 8 hour day, women equal pay, abolish child labour, 700,000 members) * American Federation of Labour ( 8 hour day, no child labour, raise wage, 2million skilled, major trade union) * Industrial worker of the World (unite workers, violent, open to everyone) * Mass immigration hindered development of unions * 1881-1905 7million workers had 37,000 strikes * Molly Maguires (Irish workers who were violent) * African Americans discriminated against (white workers laid off blacks hired) * Laissez-faire * Sherman Anti-trust fund (outlawed business trusts, FAILED)
And in the high ranks of organized crime and violence was Al Capone. Alphonso Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. He was one of seven children born to Gabriel and Teresa Capone, who came to the United States from Italy in 1893. His father was a barber. Capone attended school through the sixth grade, at which point he beat up his teacher one day, then was beaten
The money they were carrying, some fifteen thousand dollars, was stolen. Witnesses said five people had taken part in the holdup. The police arrested two Italian immigrants; Nicola Sacco, shoemaker and Bartolomo Vanzetti, a fish peddler. Both were admitted anarchists (people who believe in the destruction of all governments) and draft dodgers. This took place at the height of the Red Scare.
From these ships, the plague spread throughout Europe. By 1400, twenty million to thirty million people died because of the plague. Anyone who dared venture out upon the streets of Florence in the summer of 1348