History of the United States II / Unit 18 USH2 2552 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A Government That Relieved No One
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The idea
Theme six starts in unit five. In the depression of eighteen ninety-three unemployment neared nineteen percent, entry 0621 records; Coxey's marchers asked for federal public works, and Congress ignored them, entry 0622 adds.
In practice
Five hundred unemployed marchers at a Capitol that would not hear them.
Where people slip
The Sherman Act of entry 0612 was loosely worded and seldom enforced in its first decade.
Your place on the trail
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