INDUSTRIALIZATION, LABOR, IMMIGRATION, and WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

Labor and the Worker's Search for Power gives some details about working conditions and wages in the late 1800's

Emergence of Modern America - links to sites about labor, etc

On the Lower East Side: observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century

A Brief History of Labor in America - Part I - overview of labor conditions in 1700's and 1800's

History of the Suffrage Movement- includes text from 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, and links to site dealing with period after 19th Amendment

National Women's Hall of Fame provides bios of 125 influential women

Ellis Island -- Immigration: 1900-1920 a picture gallery of Immigration

American Family Immigration History Online w site at which you can search for your family's entry into the U.S. through Ellis Island, if that's how they came

The Dramas of Haymarket provided by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University. It s organized in the form of a drama, a tragedy in five Acts with a Prologue and an Epilogue. The seven major parts of the site–the Prologue, the five Acts, and the Epilogue–are arranged chronologically. While the site devotes considerable attention to the Haymarket protest meeting on the evening of May 4, 1886, at which several policemen were killed by a dynamite bomb attributed to political radicals, it encompasses a great deal more. beginning with the Chicago Fire of 1871 and ending with the pardoning of the last of the Haymarket offenders in 1893

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