WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Question
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Which of the following is NOT usually a way in which Gilded Age business owners ended worker strikes?
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Hiring strikebreakers to attack striking workers.
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Waiting until the workers simply came back to work.
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Hiring scabs to replace the striking workers.
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Paying workers what they wanted.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -As the United States became a major industrial power, conflict between workers and factory owners intensified. Read about the Homestead Strike and the Pullman Strike, two of the most famous labor battles in American history.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gilded Age: Definition The Gilded Age is characterized by rapid economic growth, a flood of immigration, and scandalous politics.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the early 1880s, there were about 500 strikes a year involving about 150, 000 workers. By the 1890, the number had climbed to a thousand a year involving 700, 000 workers a year, and by the early 1900s, the number of strikes had climbed to 4, 000 annually.
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