英语词汇coxey-s army的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Coxey’s Army. Over his long life—he died in 1951, aged 97—Jacob Sechler Coxey lived through everything from the Civil War to the atomic bomb. His Coxey’s Army was one of the first and best remembered groups to march on Washington, D.C., to demand change of some kind. Coxey’s followers were a band of unemployed workers who presented Congress with a “petition in boots” the year following the Panic of 1893. It was their leader’s plan to have Congress authorize money for public construction, which would provide employment, an idea that would be implemented during the Great Depression in the 1930s. But his highly publicized march from Massillon, Ohio on Easter Sunday failed to accomplish its purpose. The 100 men who started never swelled to 100,000 as he had predicted, and only about 500 reached Washington on May Day to protest their situation. “The Commonweal of Christ” came to an anti- climactic end when its leaders were arrested for walking on the Capitol lawn.

词汇	coxey-s army
词源	Coxey’s Army. Over his long life—he died in 1951, aged 97—Jacob Sechler Coxey lived through everything from the Civil War to the atomic bomb. His Coxey’s Army was one of the first and best remembered groups to march on Washington, D.C., to demand change of some kind. Coxey’s followers were a band of unemployed workers who presented Congress with a “petition in boots” the year following the Panic of 1893. It was their leader’s plan to have Congress authorize money for public construction, which would provide employment, an idea that would be implemented during the Great Depression in the 1930s. But his highly publicized march from Massillon, Ohio on Easter Sunday failed to accomplish its purpose. The 100 men who started never swelled to 100,000 as he had predicted, and only about 500 reached Washington on May Day to protest their situation. “The Commonweal of Christ” came to an anti- climactic end when its leaders were arrested for walking on the Capitol lawn.
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