Railroad Strike of 1877 (jul 14, 1877 – sep 4, 1877)
Description:
- More than 100,000 workers participated in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, at the height of which more than half the freight on the country's tracks had come to a halt.- By the time the strikes were over, about 1,000 people had gone to jail and some 100 had been killed. In the end, the strike accomplished very little
- caused by low pay for dangerous jobs
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Date:
jul 14, 1877
sep 4, 1877
~ 1 months and 22 days