DBQ: Question and Documents
DIRECTIONS: Assess the validity of this statement
in a well developed essay using the documents provided and outside information
of the time period:
"The labor movement from 1875 to 1925 was a radical movement on the
fringes of American society."
- Click here for Document A(SOURCE:Eugene Debs
speech at the founding conventin for the IWW, 1905)
- Click here for Document B(SOURCE:Adolf Strasser
was questioned at a U.S. Senate Hearing, 1883)
- Click here for Document C(SOURCE:Terence V. Powderly
quoted in a publication by the Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics and
Inspection, 1887)
- Click here for Document D(SOURCE:Terence V. Powderly,
The Path I Trod, 1893)
- Click here for Document E(SOURCE:Samuel Gompers,
Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Aoutobiography, 1925)
- Click here for Document F(SOURCE:Eugene Debs,
Debs:His Life, Writings and Speeches, 1908)
- Click here for Document G(SOURCE:John Peter Altgeld-The
Chicago Martyrs, San Fransisco-1899)
- Click here for Document H(SOURCE:Preamble of
the IWW, Chicago 1919)
- Click here for Document I(SOURCE:US Bureau of
Census)
- Click here for Document J(SOURCE:Harper's Weekly,
July 21, 1894)
- Click here for Document K(SOURCE:U.S. Department
of Labor Bi-Centenial History of the American Worker)
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