WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Homestead strike 1892
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Pullman strike 1894
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The immediate consequences of the strike were insignificant. Pullman workers had to Page 3 return to their jobs, still hampered by high rents and low wages. The ARU had been defeated and its strength dwindled. Furthermore, the federal government had shown definitively its position towards labor unions and laborers.
Detailed explanation-2: -By involving as many as 250, 000 railroad workers on some 20 railroads, the Pullman Strike demonstrated the power of the labour movement. However, in precipitating the use of an injunction to break the strike, it opened the door to greater court involvement in limiting the effectiveness of strikes.
Detailed explanation-3: -ARU president Eugene Victor Debs was arrested and subsequently imprisoned for disregarding the injunction. The boycott and the union were broken by mid-July, partly because of the ARU’s inability to secure broader support from labor leaders.
Detailed explanation-4: -The strike prompted Cleveland to propose a bill to make Labor Day a national holiday. Cleveland signed the bill into law on June 28, 1894.