alaska-yukon-pacific exposition – 1909 everett massacre/unions -1916
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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition – 1909
Everett Massacre/Unions -1916
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Question to Consider
• What exhibits would have interested your character at AYP?
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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 1909
• Washington's first World's Fair opened on June 1, 1909, and closed on October 16, 1909.
• More than three million people visited the fair, which took place in Seattle on the University of Washington campus.
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Court of Honor and Arctic Circle
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Government Building
• Wax mannequins in surgery demonstration exhibit
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Forestry Building
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Agriculture Building
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Hawaii Building
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California Building
• Elephant constructed of walnuts
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Alaska Building
• Gold!
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Electric Lights
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Geysers Used Hydraulics
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Filipino Native Display
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Eskimo Exhibit
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Upside Down House
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Vaudeville Acts on the Pay Streak
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Esplanade at the Foot of the Pay Streak Midway
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Fairy Gorge Tickler, a gravity-powered ride
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Question to Consider:• What exhibits would have interested your
character?• Take a few moments to jot down a few of the
exhibits.
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Possible Scrapbook Entry
• Write a postcard home to a friend describing your visit.
• Include how you got to the fair, who went with you, what exhibits you saw (at least three), and what the fair might mean to Washington.
• For the postcard face, draw one of your own or print one from the site.
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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916
Washington’s Workers• By 1900, most of the Northwest’s workers
were young single males.• Workers went from job to job. • They earned wages in mines, logging camps,
lumber mills, and farm fields and orchards.
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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916
• Capitalists were business owners who made money by hiring workers, usually at very low wages.
• It was workers against owners, poor againstthe rich.• The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or
Wobblies) wanted to overthrow capitalism.• The IWW championed the concept of “One BigUnion” and the overthrow of capitalism.
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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916
• Unlike other unions, the IWW welcomedwomen and African Americans. • The union also gave dignity to unskilled
workers who were barred from other unions.• The “Wobblies” agreed to strike if necessary.• Workers fought for the right to speak freely to
bosses and government leaders to get safer working conditions and higher wages.
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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916
• Wobblies spoke on street corners and in public parks.
• Their “free speech fights” created muchsympathy for their cause.• In 1916 in Everett, a mill town north of
Seattle, Wobblies were giving speeches criticizing World War I and capitalism.
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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916
• Many were arrested, then repeatedlybeaten by police and vigilantes (men who take itupon themselves to punish criminals.)• To give support, a boatload of nearly 300 more
Wobblies landed at Everett. • As they sang union songs and tried to get offthe ship, they were met with gunfire. • Five workers and two vigilantes were killed.
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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916
• Seventy-four Wobblies were charged with murder.
• After a trial, the defense showed that no one could tell who fired the first shot, and no guns were found on the ship.
• The Wobblies were freed.
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Questions to Consider
• Where does your character live?• What industry does he/she work in?• Is it the kind that would unionize?• What would be the benefits and
disadvantages?
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Possible Scrapbook Entries
– Write a letter to the editor showing your opinion of the event. Include your opinion of the rights of the demonstrators and the actions of the officials.
• OR– Create a political cartoon that includes the
protesters and the officials and shows your opinion of the event.