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Question 1

Following the Pullman strike, efforts by employers to obtain anti-union court orders were generally

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successful because there were no legal protections for unions.

Question 2

Which best explains how a mixed economy addressed problems that arose from capitalism?

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Government regulation was minimal, but new laws protected workers and their standard of living.

Question 3

Which of the following best describes Samuel Gompers’s role in relation to the goals of organized labor?

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He was the first president of the largest labor organization in the world.

Question 4

Which of the following was a tactic that companies used to hurt unions?

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hiring scabs

Question 5

As the economy grew during the Gilded Age, many workers and their families

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continued to have low incomes and could not escape poverty.

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