Who was the leader of the American Railway Union during the Pullman Strike of 1894?
Explanation
This question tests the reader's ability to identify key figures with the correct historical events and labor organizations discussed in the chapter.
Other questions
According to Chapter 11, what was the estimated number of railroad workers killed or injured in 1889 as recorded by the Interstate Commerce Commission?
What was the primary goal of Frederick W. Taylor's "scientific management," also known as Taylorism, as described in Chapter 11?
What event immediately preceded the bombing at Haymarket Square in Chicago on May 4, 1886?
What happened to Andrew Carnegie's steel company in 1900?
What was the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1895 case U.S. v. E. C. Knight Co. regarding the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
What percentage of executives from the textile, railroad, and steel industries in the 1870s came from middle- or upper-class families?
During the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, what two immigrant groups comprised the majority of the 13,000 workers?
What was the Credit Mobilier company, as described in Chapter 11?
What was the outcome of the 1892 strike at the Carnegie Steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania?
What was the significance of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, according to the perspective of railroad lawyer Richard Olney, as cited in Chapter 11?
In his novel 'Looking Backward', what kind of society did Edward Bellamy describe?
What was the Supreme Court's justification for using the Sherman Act against interstate strikes but not against a manufacturing monopoly like the sugar trust?
How many children under the age of sixteen were working in the United States in 1880?
In the 1886 New York mayoral election, who was the candidate nominated by the Independent Labor party?
What was the central argument of Henry George's influential book 'Progress and Poverty'?
How many striking workers were involved in the nationwide eight-hour day strikes on May 1, 1886?
What was the result of the 1891 cotton pickers' strike in Arkansas led by Ben Patterson?
According to the chapter, how many businesses closed down as a result of the economic crisis of 1893?
What was the 'crop-lien system' that was brutal for Southern farmers?
What was the significance of the year 1886 in the history of American labor, according to the chapter?
Why did the American Railway Union's constitution, as affirmed in 1894, have a crucial effect on the outcome of the Pullman strike?
What was the 'final, and perhaps most important, reason' that the Populist movement was destroyed, according to the chapter?
What was the outcome of the 1896 presidential election, which was a critical test for the Populist movement?
How much did the wealth of the 'Forbes 400' richest people in the country increase as a result of the tax bills from 1978 to 1990?
What happened at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890, as mentioned at the end of Chapter 11?
How did J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and other prominent industrialists avoid military service in the Civil War?
What was the annual wage for a railroad laborer in 1890, according to the commissioner of labor?
The IWW, or 'Wobblies', was formed in 1905 with what core principle regarding union organization?
What was the result of the massacre of twenty-eight Chinese miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, in the summer of 1885?
What was the initial signal for the rest of the century, as declared in the opening sentence of Chapter 11?
In the great textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912, what event led to the shooting death of striker Anna LoPizzo?
What was the 'Contract Labor Law of 1864' used for during the Civil War?
In Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel 'The Jungle', what industry's shocking conditions were exposed to the public?
What was the financial cost for J.P. Morgan to float a $260 million bond issue for the U.S. government, a task the government could have done itself?
What was the American Federation of Labor's (AFL) general stance towards strikes, according to the chapter?
How did the national government respond to the great railroad strikes of 1877?
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911 a tragic example of?
According to a Senate report cited in Chapter 11, what percentage of U.S. manufacturing was controlled by 318 trusts by 1904?
What was the central demand of the Farmers Alliance that they tried to achieve through cooperatives and 'bulking'?
What was the final outcome for the eight anarchists convicted after the Haymarket bombing?
In the general strike in St. Louis in 1877, what evidence of interracial unity was reported in the chapter?
What was the central message of Russell Conwell's widely delivered lecture, 'Acres of Diamonds'?
What was the significance of the 'Bessemer process' for industrial development, as mentioned in Chapter 11?
In the 1891 Tennessee Coal Mine strike, what was the 'iron-clad contract' that miners refused to sign?
In the 1893 depression, how many people were estimated to be unemployed out of a labor force of 15 million?
What was the central theme of Tom Watson's plea for racial unity within the Populist movement, as quoted in Chapter 11?
The tragic fire at the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1860, where eighty-eight workers died, resulted in what legal outcome for the construction engineer who knew the structure was inadequate?
In the 1887 sugar strike in Louisiana, what was the primary demand of the ten thousand striking laborers?
What was the 'most skillful terracing' used by the industrial and political elites to stabilize the pyramid of wealth, according to the opening of Chapter 11?
By 1890, what percentage of farm machinery was made by the International Harvester company?