Politics and the Gilded Age
Politics and the Gilded Age
Politics and the Gilded Age
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The Drumbeat of Discontent• July 1892 – Homestead Strike– 300 Pinkerton detectives called to put downsteelworkers strike at Andrew Carnegie’s plant– Strike caused by pay cuts at steel factory– Strikers defeated <strong>the</strong> 300 detectives– US troops <strong>the</strong>n called out <strong>and</strong> broke <strong>the</strong> strike <strong>and</strong>destroyed <strong>the</strong> union• July 1892 – strike of silver miners crushed byfederal troops in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho