Find out what led a disparate group of unemployed Americans to undertake a 700-mile march on Washington, D.C., after the stock market crash of 1893, in this video adapted from The Gilded Age: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. With the country in the grips of a depression and more than a million people unemployed by 1894, Jacob Coxey organized a march from Ohio to the U.S. Capitol to convince lawmakers to put the jobless to work fixing the nation’s dilapidated roadways. As Coxey’s march grew in numbers and notoriety, debate raged over the responsibility of the government to provide employment for its citizens.