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While the South tried to rebuild under the controversial Reconstruction Acts, the rest of the country flourished.

Manufacturing in textiles and steel boomed, while oil production skyrocketed.

Railroads united the country, which sent floods of settlers into the western territories.

But as the economy boomed, a dividing line quickly formed in urban society. Throughout the 1870s and

early 1880s, wealth became concentrated in the hands of a few. Andrew Carnegie dominated steel,

John D. Rockefeller controlled oil, and J.P. Morgan lorded over Wall Street. Those titans of industry created

monopolies that lined their pockets with millions of dollars. But to those who worked for the

Titans, the Titans earned another nickname, Robber Barons. By the mid-1880s, as wealth grew for the bosses, laborers demanded wage increases and better working conditions.

Before long, a labor movement arose, as strikes and protests hit major cities, and it was only a matter of time before blood was spilled.

On May 1, 1886, tens of thousands of before blood was spilled.

On May 1st, 1886, tens of thousands of laborers across Chicago put down their tools for a general strike. Their demand was simple. They wanted an eight-hour workday. And Chicago wasn't the only city affected.

New York, Detroit, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee all

saw men walk off the job. In Chicago, on the third day of the strike, unarmed workers gathered

in front of the McCormick Reaper Works for a rally. August Spears, a German immigrant and anarchist, bellowed to the crowd to stand strong

and to not give in. Only if they remained with the union would they win their call for an

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