Chapter 202. Reflections on The Labor Wars, Chapter 20

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Correct. The answer is c. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that, in the 1890s, industrial workers seeking to organize unions and achieve collective bargaining rights staged a series of strikes that provoked violence and induced state and federal governments to decide whether to act to protect workers’ rights or to preserve employers’ private property.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that, in the 1890s, industrial workers seeking to organize unions and achieve collective bargaining rights staged a series of strikes that provoked violence and induced state and federal governments to decide whether to act to protect workers’ rights or to preserve employers’ private property.

Correct. The answer is b. The author cites the example of the Homestead steel strike of 1894 to demonstrate that state governments’ intervention to protect employers’ private property undermined workers’ efforts to unionize.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author cites the example of the Homestead steel strike of 1894 to demonstrate that state governments’ intervention to protect employers’ private property undermined workers’ efforts to unionize.

Correct. The answer is d. To support her argument that government officials’ approach to the question of workers’ rights varied according to their political principles, the author describes Populist governor Davis Waite’s refusal to use the power of the state against the mineworkers who organized the strike at the Cripple Creek mines in 1894.

Incorrect. The answer is d. To support her argument that government officials’ approach to the question of workers’ rights varied according to their political principles, the author describes Populist governor Davis Waite’s refusal to use the power of the state against the mineworkers who organized the strike at the Cripple Creek mines in 1894.

Correct. The answer is c. The author argues that court injunctions that led to the imprisonment of the boycott’s leader, Eugene Debs, led to its defeat in 1894.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author argues that court injunctions that led to the imprisonment of the boycott’s leader, Eugene Debs, led to its defeat in 1894.

Correct. The answer is a. The author argues that workers’ right to organize and speak collectively through unions laid at the heart of the strikes American workers’ staged in the 1890s.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author argues that workers’ right to organize and speak collectively through unions laid at the heart of the strikes American workers’ staged in the 1890s.

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