On today's menu we will be discussing the Railroad riots of 1877. Essentially during this time period there was a shortage of jobs and a surplus of workers.Whenever that happens society is struggling. employers had so much power that they could treat their workers unfairly and paid them so little. The working man wanted to complain, but he was so replaceable he could not. The lower class man could not protest his low wage and no benefits stuck in a job that was paying him just enough that he wouldn't be dead. This is terrible I am happy this is no longer allowed a vicious cycle of workers being replaced so easily. If they had so many workers why could they not figure out a way to make more jobs creating more jobs would create more product and make more revenue it would resolve its self why did no one think of this its as if the rich wanted the poor to stay poor back then.

Flour riots

Hello how are you doing, my name is Eddie Lopez. The "flour riot of 1873" was a terrible situation

Seeing the situation as an outsider you can tell that riots is where it was heading. They were overcharging for an imported resource flour. We are all use to inflation in the 21st century but the price jump was ridiculous. Flour jumped from 7 dollars a barrel to 12 dollars a barrel. The jump was too much for the people.At the end of the riot the People threw all the flour on the ground so no one could have it . This could have been so easily avoided.People don't have a good history of making good decisions in groups but when the Average Joe feels like he is being taken advantage of he will react. Greed was essentially the cause of these riots because they did not need to occur. Supply and demand why could they not buy in bigger quantities and sell for a lower price? They would have easily made a great profit if the flour demand was that high.Why did they did not see this coming?