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Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first strike that spread across multiple states in the U.S.
51–86+ [b] Arrested. 165–212 [c] The Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 involved several days of work stoppage and violence in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1877. It formed a part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, during which widespread civil unrest spread nationwide following the global depression and economic downturns of the mid-1870s.
The B&OSW absorbed the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1893, giving the B&O a connection to St. Louis, Missouri, and finally the B&OSW disappeared into the rest of the system in 1900. Blockade of engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, during strike in 1877 1876 B&O map. Ohio River Railroad from 1901; Pittsburgh Junction Railroad from 1902
On July 16, 1877, the first nationwide strike, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, began when rail workers at Martinsburg started an action to protest pay cuts. After several unsuccessful attempts to quell the protests, Governor Henry M. Mathews called for federal troops. By the time these troops had restored order, the protest of the rail ...
Burning of Union Depot, Pittsburgh, July 21–22 during Great Railroad Strike. July 14 – Baltimore railroad strike of 1877: Workers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad walk off their jobs in an act that is seen as the start of the great railroad strike of 1877. [2] July 16. Railroad workers on strike in Martinsburg, West Virginia, derail and ...
The St. Louis Republic rendered the strikers as greedy and ruthless. The 1877 St. Louis general strike was one of the first general strikes in the United States. It grew out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist -leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party ...
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s). The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the country ...
Some locals feared that workers were rising in revolution such as the Paris Commune of 1871, while others joined their efforts against the railroads. Pages in category "Great Railroad Strike of 1877" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.