Howard Zinn’s A People’s history of The United States
Chapter 13 “The Socialist Challenge”
My Notes:
Challenging the capitalist system
to serve the common man.
Emma Goldman 235
Mark Twain
Mother Jones
Upton Sinclair
Jack London
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
JP Morgan
Ford
Taylorism
WEB DuBois
Big Bill Haywood
Eugene Debs
Mother Mary Jones
IWW in San Diego
Susan B Anthony
Margaret Sanger
Helen Keller
TR Pg 252 laws
Child Labor
Capitalism
Violent Strikes pg 238
Triangle Shirtwaist Company pg.
238-239
Labor Struggle
General Strike
Working conditions- 191435,000 workers killed
700,000 injured
AFL – pg 240
IWW pg 240
Rules for teachers
Strikes pg 246
1890s 1000 strikes per year
1904- 4000 strikes per year
Pg 246- Debbs quote
Women’s Suffrage pg 247
Suffrage Quote- pg 248
African Americans-pg 251
Booker T + WEB
Niagara Movement
NAACP
Progressives
Robert La Follette 254
Socialist Officials elected 1910
73 mayors, 1200 other officials… p
254
Did the Progressive reforms succeed
in doing what it intended- stabilize
the capitalist system by repairing its
worst defects?
“Ludlow Massacre”, Colorado
11thousand miners go on strike. 1914
Owned by Rockefeller
Mother Jones went there and was
arrested and deported.
National Guard, strike breakers
11 children
Worker backlash
Why does Zinn tittle this chapter “The Socialist Challenge”?
According to Zinn why do TR and the progressives embrace reforms especially for labor?
How does Zinn interpret the
Howard Zinn’s A People’s history of The United States
Chapter 13 “The Socialist Challenge”
Quiz
Using your annotated copy of this chapter:
1. Identify in a list, topics that we have already studied (you read or we learned about in class) At
least 10 topics
2. Identify in a list 10 topics that were new.
3. What did you learn that was new about 3 of these new topics (describe new insights have)
4. Why does Zinn tittle this chapter “The Socialist Challenge”?
5. According to Zinn why do TR and the progressives embrace reforms especially for labor?
6. “Ludlow Massacre”, Colorado
7. Triangle Shirtwaist Company pg. 238-239