WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Using the Army to take the railroads from the corrupt owners.
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Using the Army to crush and end the worker strike.
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He refused to do anything.
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He chose to not support the railroad owners or workers by calling for peace.
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Rutherford B. Hayes sent federal troops to several locations to reopen the railroads. In the meantime, the strike had spread to several other states, including Maryland, where violence erupted in Baltimore between the strikers and that state’s militia.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -After more than a month of rioting and bloodshed in Pittsburgh, President Rutherford B. Hayes sent in federal troops as in West Virginia and Maryland to end the strikes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following statements accurately describes President Hayes’s reaction to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877? President Hayes sent militias and federal troops from town to end the strike.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.