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All of the following statements are reasons why child labor was problematic EXCEPT
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child laborers took well-paying jobs from legal immigrants
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The Haymarket affair
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was blamed on seven anarchist leaders despite a lack of evidence
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The Homestead strike
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was waged against a Carnegie company
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President Grover Cleveland's response to the Pullman strike was to
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send federal troops to keep the trains running
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Violence erupted at the Homestead Works in 1892 when
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Henry Frick tried to break a strike by bringing in Pinkertons
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Marxism, one strain of socialism, was imported to the United States mainly by
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Germans
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was provoked by
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wage cuts that followed a depression
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Why were mail cars connected to the Pullman cars during the Pullman strike?
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to justify federal intervention to end the strike by allowing railroad executives to claim the strike interfered with the mail
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Why was there a growth of craft unions during the Civil War?
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The war sparked an increased demand for skilled labor.
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All of the following statements are true of the Pinkertons EXCEPT
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they relied on Chinese labor to fill their ranks
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Membership in the American Federation of Labor at first
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grew slowly
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The National Labor Union
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was influential in getting Congress to enact an eight-hour workday for federal employees
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For industrial workers in Gilded Age America
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working and living conditions remained precarious
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The Knights of Labor declined for all the following reasons EXCEPT
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its leader Terence Powderly died
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The greatest growth of the Knights of Labor took place
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under the leadership of Terence Powderly, when the union had several strikes against the railroads
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
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ended when the workers, who lacked organized bargaining power, returned to work
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The state that gave the highest percentage vote to the Socialist presidential candidate in 1912 was
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Oklahoma
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Which of the following statements about the Socialist Party of America is not true?
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Its support was confined to industrial workers in the Northeast
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The Industrial Workers of the World
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had its origin in the mining and lumber camps of the West
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How did the AFL differ from the Knights of Labor?
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The AFL was a federation of national organizations, each of which retained a large degree of its autonomy, while the Knights organization was more centralized.
