Strikes and Unrest

Question 1

What was Henry Frick's main strategy for stopping the Homestead Strike?

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D: Frick hired the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to come to Homestead and try to break up the strike.

Question 2

What is the main reason that the US government wanted to avoid large-scale railroad strikes after the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

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D: Railroad strikes were a threat to economic prosperity and national security.

Question 3

Which of the following was a cause of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

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B: Railroad companies rejected workers’ requests for higher wages.

Question 4

As economic conditions declined during the 1870s, the most common way for railroad companies to cut costs was to

Question 5

After the Pullman Strike ended, the majority of the workers

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A: resigned from the union and were rehired by the company.

Question 6

Which lists the events surrounding the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in the correct order?

Question 7

Which was a direct result of the Pullman Strike?

Question 8

Which of the following statements accurately describes President Hayes’s reaction to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

Question 9

The Pullman Strike resulted in

Question 10

Read the quote attributed to Theodore Rhodie, a former Pullman employee."I do not like to walk up there and hand up my membership in the American Railway Union because when a man asks me to give up my principles, my rights as an American citizen, he might just as well ask for my life."What result of the Pullman Strike is the worker describing?

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