Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The Beginning
Thesis Statement
How and why it happened
Why it started to spread and where
What happened when the police got there and why
Summary
Annotated Bibliography
The Beginning
This is a picture of how the strike started
The strike started July 17 in Martinsburg, West
Virginia, after Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had cut wages for the second time in one year.
Protesters started to form and didn’t let any trains to move until the pay cut was restored.