Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
If you think there are a lot of protests in the United States in 2018, you’d be right, but it’s not like we haven’t done it before. Think back to the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War protests- those were only 50 years ago, and 50 years is a rather long stretch between major uprisings in America.
After all, the country was born as a protest against Britain. Since then, we’ve seen the Civil War, the fight for women’s suffrage, labor strikes, and more. Those were all sparked by people protesting against the status quo.The labor movement had been brewing since the Colonial era, and the first recorded strike—by skilled tailors protesting reduced wages—happened in 1768. At the time, most Americans did some farming to support their families, developing their craftsmanship in the winter months. Work hours were not much of an issue: Self-employed farmers put in the most hard labor for about six months of the year, estimated at 8-10 hours a day. In the early days of the United States, craftsmen began organizing trade unions in cities around the country to protect their…
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