Whites Had Brought Seeds Of Emerging Industries

May 31, 1889 was a day that brought terror to the small town of Johnstown Pennsylvania. The small town was established in 1794 as a steel town and had a population on 30,000. The cause of the flood actually starts not at the town but 14 upstream at the South Fork Dam were the Little Conemaugh and Stony Creeks rivers meet as you can see in the image below. At this place is Lake Conemaugh, a 3-mile long lake located up against the side of a mountain, 450 feet higher than Johnstown PA. The construction started in 1840 under the supervision of engineer William E. Morris but wasn't completed till 1852 due to financial difficulties. (Johnstown Historical Society)

This test came on July 24, 1916 when an explosion occurred in a tunnel being dug under Lake Erie. The tunnel quickly filled

around the world. The explosion took place at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in

The first event was with the Industrial Workers of World (IWW), where they were blamed by Tulsan’s in bombing the house of a wealthy oilman. It began on “October 29, 1917”, when the home of a wealthy oilman was bombed in Tulsa. There were little clues to be found but as Scott

The Gold Rush started on January 24, 1848 when James W. Marshall found a gold nugget in a river while building a sawmill for John Sutter. It was a time where people

It was day of Jan 24th 1948, James Marshall was building a new sawmill for John Sutter in South Fork of American river near Coloma valley.He spotted some flecks of shiny pebbles.His eyes sparkled when he discovered that it was gold.

Still attempting to unionize coal mining in southwestern West Virginia, tensions rose. Conflict finally erupted on August 25, 1921, when the coal miners

It was a confrontation between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and striking coal miners from Saskatchewan. The miners had been on strike hoping to improve their wages and working conditions. A great amount of people with their families, paraded through the city in order to draw attention to their strike. The RCMP confronted them and attempted to block and break up, but violence broke out and the police opened up fire on the strikes. Many strikers were wounded and arrested

In July, 1849 a party of Texas slave owners and their slaves arrived in the California gold fields and put their slaves to work panning for gold. White miners considered it unfair that they should have to compete with slave labor. They held a mass meeting and resolved "that no slave or Negro should own claims or even work in the mines. “ They ordered the Texans out of the gold fields within 24 hours.

On April 20, 1914 a build up to tensions between union strikers and militia directed by the Rockefeller Coal Company came to a climax when the make shift town, called White City was attacked by militia. The Ludlow massacre was a build up of many different issues between the owners of the mines and the miners. Labor problems such as paternalism, lack of enforcement on current labor laws, and the slow recovery from the depression of 1890 all contributed to the actions of the Ludlow massacre in Colorado and the violence that was used after.

During this time period the need for natural resources were in high demand. As the transcontinental railroad spread west to California, towns became popping up around the railroad, called boom towns. The people living in these towns discovered the natural resources, such as mining for gold, silver, iron ore, copper, and timber. People would come and mine for the resources and once the resource was gone, the miners would leave, and these boom towns would then become “ghost” towns. Also in the west, there was a large supply of land. In 1862, farmers and ranchers moved out to the west. The land in the west was very cheap, and farmers were able to buy large amount of land, for a low price. The Homestead Act of 1862, said that farmers would receive

The fire took place on March 25th, 1911. The source of the fire ignited in one of the trash bins on the eighth floor. The manager who was working that day tried to extinguish the fire with a fire extinguisher but was

On March 25, 1911, one of the deadliest industrial accidents in United States history took place at The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The fire cost 146 men and women lives from fire, smoke inhalation, and falling or jumping to their deaths

In 1854 the miners farewelled one of their most well known and well respected miner, James Scobie. James Bently the one who murdered James Scobbie out side his hotel after there was a fight between some people and once Bentlys hotel was burnt he murdered James scobie. After the miners lost one of their most respected miners they didn’t stop fighting they faught against the government and made the governments job harder then it already was.

As expected, the act was not well received among the Chinese population. Violence and riots erupted throughout the country. On September 2, 1885, British and Swedish miners attacked their Chinese co-workers at Rock Springs, Colorado, killing twenty-eight men, wounding fifteen, and driving off hundreds into the desert. News of this attack was told across the country and it led to more expulsions. The next attack was in the same year in Tacoma, Washington. Both city officials and the Knights of Labor union workers pushed the Chinese out of their city. On the third of November, they forced the Chinese people from their homes and put them on the streets. Some protesters attempted the stop the expulsion, but it was no use. This gives some insight