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...
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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...
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railroad strike of 1877 was a series of work stoppages and civil unrest in Chicago, Illinois, which occurred as part of the larger national strikes and...
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Baltimore Strike may refer to one of several strikes that have happened in Baltimore Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 Baltimore police strike Baltimore...
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Pittsburgh railway strike occurred in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. It was one of many incidents of strikes, labor unrest...
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strikebreaker – the railroad strikes of 1877 and 1894." Labor History 18.2 (1977): 179–196. DeForest, Walter S. The Periodical Press and the Pullman Strike: An Analysis...
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1856 Baltimore election riot of 1857 Baltimore election riot of 1858 Baltimore election riot of 1859 Baltimore railroad strike of 1877, strikes and riots...
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Daily Alta California, which had been covering the Pittsburgh railroad strike of 1877, ran an article describing the clashes between striking workers...
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Strike of 1877 or the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886. Earlier strikes had been largely leaderless and disorganized mass uprisings of workers.[citation...
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neighborhoods. Baltimore was the origin of a major railroad workers' strike in 1877 when the B&O company attempted to lower wages. On July 20, 1877, Maryland...
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Coal strike of 1902 (also known as the anthracite coal strike) was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern...
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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...
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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...
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cities in the state where strikes occurred as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. It was the first in the United States in which workers across...
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1877: Baltimore railroad strike in Baltimore, Maryland Chicago railroad strike of 1877, Chicago, Illinois Philadelphia Railroad Strike, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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The Reading Railroad Massacre occurred on July 23, 1877, when strikes in Reading, Pennsylvania, led to an outbreak of violence, during which 10 to 16...
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Lincoln County War (category History of Lincoln County, New Mexico)
Territory, the predecessor of the state of New Mexico, and continued until 1881. The feud became famous because of the participation of William H. Bonney ("Billy...
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General Strike of 1910 was a labor strike by trolley workers of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company that grew to a citywide riot and general strike in Philadelphia...
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Baltimore know-nothings, 1854-1860." Maryland Historical Magazine 93 (1998): 5-37. 1856 United States presidential election Baltimore railroad strike...
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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States. It operated as...
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1861. Baltimore Plot Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 Baltimore Know-Nothing riots of 1856 George H. Steuart (militia general) Henry Stump List of incidents...
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The Lawrence Textile Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the...
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to destroy the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, working in conjunction with William W. Averell's offensive (Battle of Cove Mountain), which had similar objectives...
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East St. Louis massacre (redirect from East Saint Louis Race Riot of 1917)
the spring of 1917, the mostly white workers of the Aluminum Ore Company in East St. Louis voted to strike. The company recruited hundreds of black workers...
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Haymarket affair (redirect from Haymarket strike)
unions prepared for a general strike in support of the eight-hour day. On Saturday, May 1, thousands of workers who went on strike and attended rallies that...
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for its railroading architecture by Albert Fink and John Rudolph Niernsee and for its role in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. It consists of three contributing...
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Academy of Music opens. Free Summer Excursion Society incorporated. 1876 Johns Hopkins University founded. The Maryland Zoo opens. 1877 - Railroad Strike. 1878...
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general strike was a widespread work stoppage in 1877 by workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which took place as part of the Great Railroad Strike, and was...
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the victory at the Battle of the Boyne (1689) of King William III (also Prince of Orange), over the former King James II of England (a Catholic, who had...
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used to suppress labor unrest in the North, as during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. In response Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act in 1878, which...
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