What Was the Effect of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877

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Multiple Choice

What was the effect of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

• A) It demonstrated that immigrants, especially those from China, had reached such numbers that they were becoming highly influential in compromising with executives to meet their needs.
• B) It won higher wages for railroad workers due to the participants' persistence and the sympathy of influential individuals who had followed the events in the newspapers.
• C) It was the last nationwide labor uprising because it convinced other workers that such events were fruitless and that the government did not care enough even to send troops.
• D) It revealed how polarizing the relationship between the working poor and executives had become and ended when the workers, who lacked organized bargaining power, returned to work.
• E) It was not taken seriously because only white working men participated, having failed to convince the large numbers of women and minority laborers to join the protesters.

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