WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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passage of legislation supporting the formation of unions.
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a ban on Irish immigration.
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the use of federal troops during strikes.
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congressional acts to ban strikes.
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the end of railroad expansion.
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the early 1880s, there were about 500 strikes a year involving about 150, 000 workers. By the 1890, the number had climbed to a thousand a year involving 700, 000 workers a year, and by the early 1900s, the number of strikes had climbed to 4, 000 annually.
Detailed explanation-2: -Strikes figured prominently in the rise of the organized labor movement that began in earnest in the mid-to-late 1800s. Over the years, they played a part in many of the labor movement’s hard-fought gains-from better wages to the eight-hour-work day and other improvements in working conditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Railroad Strike managed to halt one half of the freight shipments during the later days of July 1877. As a result of riots from the strike, over 1, 000 people were placed in jail and close to one hundred people were killed. The strike itself accomplished very little in their short-term goals.
Detailed explanation-4: -What came to be known as The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. It was triggered after the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year. The strikers would not allow trains to run until the cuts were revoked.