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Events Of 1877

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In the year of 1877 the times were changing, there were a lot of events that shaped the nation and its future. There were conflicts all across the nation but more specifically in the northeast and the middle of the country. These events foreshadowed what the nation would have to face in the future. There were larger goals and messages to these events; not just people fighting private companies and the federal government, but also fighting the injustices set by the people in power. The First event is the Molly Maguires, they were a group of 11 Irish immigrants that were convicted of the murder of 34 people (Digital History, n.d.). They were hanged for terrorism and murder in the Pennsylvania mining district. The Chicago Tribune called the Maguries …show more content…

They tore apart train engines and announced that “no more trains would leave Martinsburg until the 10 % cut was cancelled” (The great railroad strike, 2006). The Pennsylvania Railroad was cutting wages and had poor working conditions. In the middle of a Depression railway companies were cutting wage so thin that a brakemen working twelve hours would make $1.75 a day (2006). The workers went on strike and not railroad, but all workers going through this at the time. The strikes spread throughout Pennsylvania and the railroad, coal, and iron companies had to get the federal government to help with the workers. The spokesman for the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company said “The men have no organization” (2006). The working people learned that they were not united or powerful enough to fight against the private railroad, coal, and iron companies to make any real change in the work place, especially when the federal government helps the …show more content…

The Homestead Act of 1862 helped Benjamin because with it, Americans could claim up to “160 acres of public land” (Homestead Act, 2009). His goal was to help free slaves from the south, so they could become truly free by owning land. Most African Americans who arrived to Kansas did not have the funds to start a farm and get the supplies needed to run it. Benjamin saw that the land was too hard for an individual to farm successfully, so he bought land and created the Dunlap Colony (Kansas Historical Society, 2015). Free slaves could come and develop an economic ground to start, support, and be free from the southern

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You touched on a critical point in your forum, as of why workers went on strike. While poverty played a significant role, in 1877, railroad employees experienced a significant pay cut, which sparked the Great Railway Strike, triggering violence and a shutdown of the railways lasting nearly six weeks. Next, the Pullman strike began with railroad owners becoming increasingly wealthier, while none of the profits trickled down to the employees. The labor walk-outs encompassed the substantial divide between social classes. Hence, rich businessmen were increasing their profits, while poor workers often remained stagnate with low wages and company issued paycuts.

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The Period from 1870 to 1900 experienced more harm than good over the topic of labor relations due to the roles of the government and the role of industrialists as an attempt to maximize their profits by exploiting the working class. The government played a significant role in causing more conflicts during the period from the 1870s to 1900s. For example, the government aimed to put an end to all work strikes when workers were rebellious about their unfair wages and poor working conditions. One example of the protests was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 where workers went on strike and had the railways to stop. This led to acts being added such as the Sherman Antitrust act which addressed work conditions and the Pullman strike demonstrated

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The Knights of Labor, founded by Terence Powderly and Uriah Stephens in 1869, helped create a union contract with Carnegie’s Braddock Mill. While the Knights of Labor were trying to have broad social reform around the country, they created a lockout in the Braddock Mill. Workers like Kratcha did not care as much about the union’s goals, instead they wanted the mills to be open so that they could earn money (25). Large business owners, like Carnegie, tried, and usually succeed, at breaking strikes and unions in their mills. In Homestead and Braddock, Kratcha experienced the effects of strikes, and they were not positive.

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They were the ones who forced Irish miners to kill to force them to crush the miners union, the Workingmen’s Benevolent Association, which eliminating unions from the coal fields for many years. The Private Capital were the ones who made the working people learn that they were not united enough, not powerful enough, to defeat the combination of the private capital and government power. Benjamin Singleton had state and federal government say no to him because he was a black man trying to by land and was only allowed to after the Homestead Act. The Private Capital and the Government Power was the ones how caused most of the conflicts and hurt more people then the ones who were helped by

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The organized labor of 1875-1900 was unsuccessful in proving the position of workers because of the future strikes, and the intrinsical feeling of preponderation of employers over employees and the lack of regime support. In 1877, railroad work across the country took part in a cyclopean strike that resulted in mass violence and very few reforms. An editorial, from the Incipient York Time verbalized: "the strike is ostensibly hopeless, and must be regarded as nothing more than a rash and splenetic demonstration of resentment by men too incognizant or too temerarious to understand their own interest" (Document B). In 1892, workers at the Homestead steel plant near Pittsburg ambulated out on strike and mass chaos the lives of at least two Pinkerton detectives and one civilian, among many other laborers death (Document G).

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Homestead Strike of 1892 was a disagreement between management and workers over labor wages. The strike took place in Pittsburgh due to the fact that the Carnegie steel plant manager Henry C. Frick had announced wage cuts. Carnegie and Frick wanted to break the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, workers (AA). The AA was an American labor union formed in 1876 to represent iron and steel workers (History.com staff). Workers refused the 20 percent wage cuts and Frick ended up closing the plant.

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Profits for the farmers were getting smaller and smaller due to the increase in prices for the goods to be sold. These farmers believed in many different things- they believed in rules and regulations for the road (which included the fact that the government should control the railroad), lower tariffs, and that money should be based off of silver standard. For the industrial workers, their working conditions were not ideal. Each worker did not get paid nearly enough to support them and their families, even though they worked ten plus hour days, six days a week. Workers were not paid for sick days or injury.

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