Great Railroad Strike of 1877

could find and slept wherever it happened to be. In 1883 the depression had been started and was cutting living standards. By January 1885 When Debs has sworn into the state House if Representatives, he had already made a bill which would require railroad companies to compensate their employees for injuries suffered on duty. In that year Eugene was elected to one term in the lower house of the Indiana legislature. On June 1885, despite Eugene was broke, he got married on Katherine Metzel in St. Stephen

depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1879. Throughout the 1870s there were ups and downs on a mass level in the economy from the stock market crashing. The stock market crashed from investors investing too much in the railroads with borrowed money after the Civil War and panicking once the bank Jay Cooke and Companies credit became close to worthless. Investors tried to get their money out of the market by trading their shares and going to the bank to get their money out

United States, he only served one term as president from 1877 to 1881. He was involved in the ending of the reconstruction, the Dawes Act, The Great Railroad Strike, Colombia and the Monroe Doctrine, etc. Hayes tried to do things he thought was good for this country but little did he know it made things worst than what they already were. The ending of the reconstruction happened because of

The post-Civil War era was an era filled with political corruption, economic industrialization, and social urbanization largely due to an great surplus budget. With this being the case, the industrial capitalists, such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and others, were leaders in this societal boom. However, it would be appropriate to say that most industrial capitalist could be accurately characterized as “robber barons” for they often unethical, self-interested, and corrupt. It was not uncommon

P. J. O’Rourke said, “Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” When Mark Twain and Charles Dudley coined the phrase ‘gilded age’ to describe what they saw in the late 19th century I’m sure they would agree wholeheartedly with Mr. O’Rourke. What does it mean ‘gilded age’? Gilded means to coat with a thin layer

Police brutality against the black community has been an issue arising from slavery and other racial discriminations in the past (Tharoor). Some of the previous incidents of police brutality include the 1877 Great Railroad, the 1894 Pullman, and the 1919 Steel strikes, among others. Furthermore, according to statistics, this situation has grown to become a human rights crisis. For example, in 2015 alone, close to 1000 people were shot and killed by the police, with more than a quarter

Kailyn McComb History 1151 Professor Rob Denning Date Submitted Reforming America The gilded and progressive eras in America were times of expansion, urbanization, and what seemed like a golden pathway to an industrialized future. In the 1850s, railroads were being built all across America, and with that came the rise of the steel and oil industries, as well as dramatic population increases in the newly urbanized cities. Such a change in society created a gap between social classes causes incredible

The Importance of North Dakota History Throughout the streets of Portland stands the walls of a house that saw some of North Dakota’s most historical events. Built in 1880, John E. Fladeland was able to call this house his home. Fladeland was born in Winona, Minnesota in 1861 and moved to Portland, North Dakota as a young adult where he bought Forbes and Soldahl drug stores and managed the move theatre in town. After moving to North Dakota, the pharmacist ended up owning drug stores in Sutton, Luverne

forced many to look to new opportunities in cities and elsewhere. This included the newly expanded west. In the 1880s Kansas had three dominating groups- railroad companies, farmers, and cowboys. All three dealt with individual triumphs and struggles when developing the West and specifically Kansas in the later part of the 19th century. Railroads spent most of the 1880s concerned with previous legislation, farmers worried about land allotment and surviving on the Plains. Cowboys also worried about

organizations shared common grounds like aspiring to improving working conditions, by increasing the worker's’ wages and shortening the hours each individual worked (Rise of Unions). Both of these union groups used strikes at some point in their existence. The AFL generally resorted to strikes and boycotts as their main tactics; however, when it was the Knights of Labor's last resort they