In the 1877 railroad strike, what was the response of the leaders of the big railway brotherhoods?
Explanation
This question highlights the division within the labor movement itself, particularly the conservative stance of the established craft unions towards the spontaneous rebellions of 1877.
Other questions
According to Chapter 10, what was the Anti-Renter movement in the Hudson River Valley a protest against?
The Rensselaer family, a central figure in the Anti-Renter movement, had accumulated a fortune of how much and ruled over how many tenants?
What was the central political grievance that prompted Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island?
In the unofficial election of 1842, how many people voted on the People's Constitution drafted by the suffrage movement in Rhode Island?
What was the Supreme Court's long-lasting doctrine established in the case of Luther v. Borden (1849)?
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, what major city experienced a cholera epidemic where the rich fled while the poor stayed and died?
What was the significance of the 'Flour Riot of 1837' in New York City?
According to the text, what was the primary reason for the fragmentation of the Philadelphia working class after the Kensington Riots of 1844?
The first known strike of women factory workers, mentioned in Chapter 10, occurred in what year and location?
What was the largest strike to take place in the United States before the Civil War, starting in 1860?
During the Civil War, the 'Song of the Conscripts' circulated in New York highlighted what major grievance of the poor?
What was the outcome of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
The Pemberton Mill collapse in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1860, which killed eighty-eight workers, was cited in the text as an example of what?
During the Civil War, a headline in Fincher's Trades' Review in 1863 read 'THE REVOLUTION IN NEW YORK' to describe what phenomenon?
In the New York Draft Riots of 1863, the rioters' anger was directed at which groups?
What was the significance of the general strike in St. Louis in 1877?
How much were male factory workers in Lynn, Massachusetts earning per week in 1859, compared to women?
What was the initial action that started the Anti-Renter movement in the fall of 1839?
According to political scientist Robert Remini, what was the nature of the new politics of ambiguity mastered by Andrew Jackson?
By 1850, fifteen Boston families known as the 'Associates' controlled what percentage of the cotton spindleage in the United States?
Why did the New York Draft Riots of 1863 occur, according to the text?
What was a significant difference between the Union and Confederate conscription laws during the Civil War?
In the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, where did the first instance of workers uncoupling engines and stopping trains occur?
What was the Contract Labor Law of 1864?
The 'Working Men's Declaration of Independence' written by George Henry Evans in 1829 listed which of the following as a grievance?
How did historian Alan Dawley explain the failure of the Lynn shoeworkers' fierce class spirit to lead to independent revolutionary action?
What was the result of the trial of the twenty-five members of the Union Society of Journeymen Tailors in New York?
In the period before the Civil War, which of the following was NOT a tactic used to crush the Anti-Renter movement?
What was the total number of deserters from the Union army by the end of the Civil War?
In the 1877 Pittsburgh strike, what was the response of one National Guard company in Lebanon, Pennsylvania?
How many workers, men and women, were in trade unions by 1864?
What was the financial status of the thousand southern families at the top of the economy, according to the Federal Census of 1850?
What happened during a three-month strike of 100,000 workers in New York in 1872?
What was the outcome of the 1835 general strike in Philadelphia involving fifty different trades?
According to Chapter 10, how did Union troops respond to strikes during the Civil War?
In the crisis of 1857, how many people were unemployed by October of that year?
What was the outcome for Thomas Dorr after he was tried for treason?
In the Philadelphia working-class families described on page 205, how many families lived in a tenement?
What was the reaction of the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association to the legislative committee report on mill conditions in 1845?
In the years of the Civil War, the total of dead and wounded on both sides was over what number in a country of 30 million?
What was the fate of the Anti-Renter movement leaders who were found guilty of murder where a deputy had been killed?
What does the text identify as a primary cause of riots and strikes in the North during the Civil War?
What was the 'iron-clad contract' that miners of the Tennessee Coal Mine Company were asked to sign in 1891?
In the summer of 1892, how many miners were rounded up and imprisoned in bullpens in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho?
What was the outcome of the Homestead strike of 1892 against the Carnegie Steel plant?
By the end of the 19th century, how many children under sixteen were at work in the United States?
According to Leonora Barry's 1888 report for the Knights of Labor, how many requests did she receive to help women organize?
How many members did the Workingmen's party in Chicago have at the time of the 1877 railroad strikes?
What was the one city where the great railroad strike of 1877 expanded into a systematically organized general strike?