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Federal troops and vigilantes fought their way into the depot, killing eighteen and breaking the strike. Louis, and strikers seized rail depots and declared for the eight-hour day and the abolition of child labor. The militia fired into the crowd, killing ten. In Reading, strikers destroyed rail property and an angry crowd bombarded militiamen with rocks and bottles. Strikers set fire to the city, destroying dozens of buildings, over a hundred engines, and over a thousand cars.

The head of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Thomas Andrew Scott, suggested that if workers were unhappy with their wages, they should be given вЂњa rifle diet for a few days and see how they like that kind of bread.вЂќ 1 Law enforcement in Pittsburgh refused to put down the protests, so the governor called out the state militia, who killed twenty strikers with bayonets and rifle fire.

Strikes convulsed towns and cities across Pennsylvania. In Baltimore, the militia fired into a crowd of striking workers, killing eleven and wounding many more. The governor of Maryland deployed the stateвЂ™s militia. Many strikers destroyed rail property rather than allow militias to reopen the rails. When local police forces would not or could not suppress the strikes, governors called out state militias to break them and restore rail service. Panicked business leaders and friendly political officials reacted quickly. Louis, shutting down railroad traffic-the nationвЂ™s economic lifeblood-across the country. That year, mired in the stagnant economy that followed the bursting of the railroadsвЂ™ financial bubble in 1873, rail lines slashed workersвЂ™ wages (even, workers complained, as they reaped enormous government subsidies and paid shareholders lucrative stock dividends). The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 heralded a new era of labor conflict in the United States. William Jennings Bryan and the Politics of Gold (2004)ДЇRQ: Analyze the ways in which farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900 (2003)ДЇRQ: Evaluate the impact of the Civil war on political and economic developments in TWO of the following regions: The South, The North, The West. (2007)ДЇRQ: For whom and to what extent was the American West a land of opportunity from 1865 to 1890? (2006)ДЇRQ: Analyze the primary causes of a population shift from a rural to an urban environment in the United States between 18. In your answer be sure to evaluate farmerвЂ™s responses to these changes. (2007)ДBQ: Analyze the ways in which technology, government policy, and economic conditions changed American agriculture in the period 1865-1900. (2008)ДЇRQ: Explain how TWO of the following individuals responded to the economic and social problems created by industrialization during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jane Addams Andrew Carnegie Samuel Gompers Upton Sinclair.

(2008)ДЇRQ: Following Reconstruction, many southern leaders promoted the idea of a вЂњNew South.вЂќ To what extent was this вЂњNew SouthвЂќ a reality by the time of the First World War? In your answer be sure to address TWO of the following: Economic development Politics Race Relations. Use the following documents and your knowledge of the period from 1880 to 1925 to construct your answer. DBQ: For the years 1880 to 1925, analyze both the tensions surrounding the issue of immigration and the United States governmentвЂ™s response to these tensions.

Andrew carnegie and the rise of big business sparknotes