Start of the Pittsburgh Riots of 1877 : my experience during July 21, 22 and 23 / Fred J. Heinz h[mansucript].
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Heinz, Frederik Ole, 1974-
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The Railroad strike of 1877, often referred to by historians as the great upheaval, was a massive revolt against the growing concentration of wealth and economic disruption following rapid technological change. Nowhere was the union movement stronger than in Pittsburgh. In a confrontation on July 21, the militia opened fire killing about twenty people. A battle followed and the rail yards were looted and burned. Federal troops occupied the city on July 27th and the strike and union collapsed. ...
Pennsylvania Railroad
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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...
