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eugene debs went to jail. president cleveland signed a proclamation announcing labor day as an official holiday as a result of the strike. it is hard to imagine sacramento or california without the impact of the railroads. the gold rush made sacramento wealthy and politically important and because of the gold rush, there was capital here to start building a railroad that connected california with the rest of the united states. >> throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring sacramento, california. our staff recently traveled there to learn about the history. learn more about sacramento and other stops on the tour at c-span.org. /citiestour..org you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> all persons having business before the honorable supreme court of the united states give their attention. >> bright core monsoon boldly opposed the interment of japanese-americans during world war ii. after being convicted for failing to report for relocation, he took his case al

eugene debs was doing different things. general notion in them was that there was an effort to undermine people mobilizing for the war, supporting the war, without some direct imminent threat that someone was going to cause violence and the like. the question in all of the cases was, can the government prohibit speech in that circumstance? they are mostly notable for the fact that holmes doesn't shift -- homes does seem to shift between schenck at the beginning and abrams at the end of the year and how far he is willing to go. the cases are all the very first set of four challenge to the constitutionality of the espionage act, which is significant in itself. and also what it means for the birth of first amendment free-speech law. beverly: it's great that you brought up that case, because in many ways that is the case that continues this conversation into the 1920's. they were not prosecuted for a local crime per se -- eight political crime. but this became not only a national sensation, but really a global sensation. in par

so in 1912, eugene debs had run for president and he'd gotten almost 1 million votes, 6% of the vote. groups, some of which are very reform-minded, and some of which are more revolution-minded. and so there are also several bombings during this period in the united states. sometimes aimed at the government, sometimes aimed at major capitalists. one of the most famous ones related to the first world war was the preparedness day bombing that had happened in san francisco in the summer of 1916 in which a bomb went off on a sort of mobilization parade for the war. and a labor radical named tom mooney ended up being convicted in very famous and very controversial trial at the time. >> tom goldstein gave us a quick sketch of the espionage act. but what was the context in which congress felt it had to pass the act? >> rate, so in some ways all of this debate and controversy about the war meant that when the united states decided to enter the war in april 1917, one of the big questions was, would the american people actually participate in this? and the government is pretty small at this poin

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