How Was the Knights of Labor Unique as a Labor

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Multiple Choice

How was the Knights of Labor unique as a labor group?

• A) It formed a successful political party that greatly influenced the topics and outcomes during the campaigns of Gilded Age presidential elections.
• B) It celebrated the current version of the wage system and capitalism in general, believing they were beneficial to laborers so long as they could get health insurance through unions.
• C) It organized members strictly by their particular trade, allowed only men to join, and sought to ensure that men would continue to receive higher pay than women.
• D) It grew rapidly, even as trade unions collapsed during the depression of the 1870s, and continued advocating the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.
• E) It encouraged doctors, lawyers, and bankers to join its ranks because the elite nature of its membership would make positive legislation more likely to be passed.

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