Industrial Age · North America · Politics

1877

Great Railroad Strike

1877

The first nationwide strike in American history began when Baltimore and Ohio railroad workers refused a wage cut. It spread through Pittsburgh, Chicago, and St. Louis; state militias and federal troops fired on workers; dozens died. The strike was broken, but it marked the arrival of mass industrial labor conflict in the United States.

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Before and after in North America

Before: June 25, 1876: Little Bighorn
After: 1878: Edison's Light Bulb Work

Before and after in Politics

Before: May 13, 1876: Queen Victoria Empress of India
After: March 3, 1878: San Stefano Treaty

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.