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===Strikes===

The United States endured its first nationwide strike in 1877, the [[Great Railroad Strike of 1877]].<ref name="cycles"/> This led to widespread unrest and often violence in many major cities and industrial hubs including [[Baltimore railroad strike of 1877|Baltimore]], Philadelphia, [[Pittsburgh Railway Riots|Pittsburgh]], [[Reading Railroad massacre|Reading]], [[1877 Saint Louis general strike|Saint Louis]], [[Scranton General Strike|Scranton]], and [[1877 Shamokin uprising|Shamokin]].<ref name="mccabe">{{cite book|author1=McCabe, James Dabney |author2=Edward Winslow Martin|title=The History of the Great Riots: The Strikes and Riots on the Various Railroads of the United States and in the Mining Regions Together with a Full History of the Molly Maguires|publisher=National Publishing Company |url=https://archive.org/details/historygreatrio00mccagoog|year=1877}}</ref>