Haymarket Massacre
Illustration
By: Anonymous
Date: c. 1886
Source: An illustration of the scene following the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago from the Chicago Historical Society.
About the Artist: The artist of the illustration is unknown.
INTRODUCTION
The Haymarket affair represented the coming together of a number of important trends that were transforming the United States in the late nineteenth century. One trend was urbanization. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the United States was largely a rural nation, but between 1870 and 1900 the number of cities with more than 100,000 people grew from just fourteen to thirty-eight, and fifteen of those cities had more than a quarter...
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