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1877 Essay In the year of 1877 a lot of events shaped the way will would look at the nation. Many of them could have been handled better but like what my grandpa would say “when win some and you lose some”. In 1877 there was conflicts and problems that the nation will have to confront. The regions of the country that most of these conflicts occur in affected those regions heavily. There are larger goals of these conflicts and a larger messages. The Molly Maguires, they are Irish immigrant miners. They were hanged for terrorism and murder in the Pennsylvania mining district. Also in Pennsylvania in 1877 the B&O railroad strike was in full swing. The strike happened because the B&O railroad company was cutting wages, this caused the workers to strike. In the great state of Kanas a former slave by the name of Benjamin Singleton wanted to help free slaves become truly free by owning land in the southern part of Kanas. This did not happen but he did by land after the Homestead Act, he created the Dunlap Colony, where free slaves and come and develop a economic ground to start families without working for the whites of the south. …show more content…

They were the ones who forced Irish miners to kill to force them to crush the miners union, the Workingmen’s Benevolent Association, which eliminating unions from the coal fields for many years. The Private Capital were the ones who made the working people learn that they were not united enough, not powerful enough, to defeat the combination of the private capital and government power. Benjamin Singleton had state and federal government say no to him because he was a black man trying to by land and was only allowed to after the Homestead Act. The Private Capital and the Government Power was the ones how caused most of the conflicts and hurt more people then the ones who were helped by

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