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Between 1881 and 1905, there were approximately 36,757 labor strikes including over 6 million workers.
Jay P. Dolan, The Irish Americans: A History (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), 165.
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On August 24, 1908, a meteorite struck the earth within 100 yards of President Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill home while he was sleeping.
Jim Rasenberger, America 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, The Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation (New York: Scibner, 2007), 184. During the War of 1812, General Andrew Jackson imposed martial law on the city of New Orleans in December of 1814 and put a federal district judge in jail when he attempted to stop him.
Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (New York: Random House, 2008), 31. The five days of rioting in Detroit in July of 1967 resulted in 43 deaths and 2,000 buildings destroyed.
G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot, The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s (New York: The Penguin Press, 2008), 335. Check out the newest video on Contrasting Perspectives of Inequality Between 1700 and 1775, about 50,000 British convicts were sent to the thirteen colonies, which was about 17% of the white immigrants during that time.
Kevin Phillips, 1775: A Good Year for Revolution (New York: Viking, 2012), 191. |
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