Chapter 193. Reflections on Workers Organize, Chapter 19

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Correct. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section is that, as industrialization eroded workers’ skills, wages, and working conditions in the 1870s and 1880s some of them organized to resist these changes, but their efforts were countered by employers’ counterattacks, government repression, and violence.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section is that, as industrialization eroded workers skills, wages, and working conditions in the 1870s and 1880s some of them organized to resist these changes, but their efforts were countered by employers’ counterattacks, government repression, and violence.

Correct. The answer is c. To support her argument that declining wages spurred workers to collective action, the author points to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, which was called by railroad workers who were protesting substantial pay cuts that coincided with the B&O Railroad’s announcement of a 10 percent dividend to its stockholders.

Incorrect. The answer is c. To support her argument that declining wages spurred workers to collective action, the author points to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, which was called by railroad workers who were protesting substantial pay cuts that coincided with the B&O Railroad’s announcement of a 10 percent dividend to its stockholders.

Correct. The answer is b. To support her suggestion that employers viewed labor actions as a threat to their power and profits, the author offers the example of Cyrus McCormick, the owner of the McCormick reaper works in Chicago who hired strike breakers to fill the positions of striking workers in his factory, and provided them with protection from the Chicago police and the Pinkerton Detective Agency. McCormick took this action in order to break the union, which he saw as a threat to his power and his profits.

Incorrect. The answer is b. To support her suggestion that employers viewed labor actions as a threat to their power and profits, the author offers the example of Cyrus McCormick, the owner of the McCormick reaper works in Chicago who hired strike breakers to fill the positions of striking workers in his factory, and provided them with protection from the Chicago police and the Pinkerton Detective Agency. McCormick took this action in order to break the union, which he saw as a threat to his power and his profits.

Correct. The answer is a. The author argues that the Knights of Labor grew significantly in the 1870s and 1880s because of increased interest in labor organizing after the defeat of the Great Railroad Strike.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author argues that the Knights of Labor grew significantly in the 1870s and 1880s because of increased interest in labor organizing after the defeat of the Great Railroad Strike.

Correct. The answer is c. The author argues that the broad-based labor movement declined in the late 1880s because of the climate of fear that followed the violent events at Haymarket Square in Chicago.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author argues that the broad-based labor movement declined in the late 1880s because of the climate of fear that followed the violent events at Haymarket Square in Chicago.

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