History 3rd RET PDF

Title	History 3rd RET
Author	Chinwe Onuoha
Course	History Of England Ii
Institution	University of Dallas
Pages	2
File Size	226.1 KB
File Type	PDF
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Railroad Strike of 18

Chinwe Onuoha

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was United S major rail strike and is witnessed as the first gen the world history. The violence that was involve railroad strike damaged the country's commerce governors in the United States released ten stat 60,000 militia members to open up the railroad. railroads were suffering from the Financial Panic it stated to cut the salaries and wages . The nati railroad company decided to cut the wages by 1 then, by the summer they cut another 10 percen The protests started a war. The governor of Maryland released the state’s militia. In Baltimore, the militia fired into a crowd of striking workers, killing eleven and wounding many more. Strikes

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convulsed towns and cities across

upon strikers during the Railroad Strike of 1877....