U.S. Attorney General Richard Olney and President Grover ...

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U.S. Attorney General Richard Olney and President Grover Cleveland justified federal intervention in the Pullman strike of 1894 on the grounds that
 
  a. the union's leader, Eugene V. Debs, was a socialist.
  b. the strike against the railroads was crippling all parts of the American economy.
  c. the strikers were engaging in violent attacks on railroad property.
  d. shutting down the railroads threatened American national security.
  e. the strike was preventing the transit of U.S. mail.

Question 2

Britain opposed Spain's reestablishing its authority in Latin American countries that had successfully revolted because
 
  a. Britain had now allied itself with France.
  b. Britain had great sympathy toward democratic revolutions.
  c. Britain preferred the United States establishing an American colonial authority over Latin America.
  d. these formerly Spanish possessions in Latin America were now open to lucrative trade and British exporters and shippers were making a lucrative profit.
  e. Britain wanted to establish imperial political control over all of these Latin American countries.

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Answer to Question 1

e

Answer to Question 2

d