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The Great Railroad Strike of 1887 began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The strike was in response to the cutting of wages for the third time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began to lose momentum when President Hayes sent federal troops from city to city. These troops suppressed strike after strike, until at last, approximately 45 days after it had started, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was over.

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was about the reduction of wages for workers of the B&O railroad. As a result the wage cut was reversed.

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It stopped the strike.
They were sent by President Rutherford B. Hayes to Martinsburg, West Virginia to quell a nonexistent riot at the request of Governor Henry M. Mathews.

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wages were being slashed of the workers. and government wasn't helping because of the laissez-faire policy.

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The Country saw their first railstrike.

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