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The Fight for Eight

6/28/2017

On May 1, 1886, at least 350,000 workers across the country conducted a general strike in support of gaining an eight-hour workday.

Steven Hahn, A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830 – 1910 (New York: Viking, 2016), 422.

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The Asking Price for Breaking a Treaty

6/21/2017

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When the U.S. government forced the Lakota into selling land in the Black Hills that was guaranteed to them by the Treaty of 1868, Red Cloud offered his agreement if the government would support the Lakota for seven generations and pay them $600 million; those conditions were not met.

Ernie LaPointe, Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2009), 59.

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A Contract and a Bailout

6/14/2017

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The U.S. government paid The Bank of New York Mellon $20 million to administer the $700 billion bank bailout of 2008 even though its failures resulted in it receiving a $3 billion bailout.

Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2009), xxi.

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Gold Attracted Some, Property Rights Attracted Others

6/8/2017

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California’s constitution (adopted in 1849) included a provision giving women the right to maintain ownership of their own property upon marriage in part as an attempt to attract wealthy single women to the state.

Leonard L. Richards, The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), 77-78.

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Western Migration Death Rate

6/1/2017

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Between 1840 and 1860, out of the approximately 250,000 people who migrated west, only 4 – 6% died (estimated).

Ethan Rarich, Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 242.

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The Fight for Eight

The Asking Price for Breaking a Treaty

A Contract and a Bailout

Gold Attracted Some, Property Rights Attracted Others

Western Migration Death Rate

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