the homestead strike of 1892 was significant to the future of american labor because it...?

Question

a - was a successful strike by the united mine workers and caused a vast increase in its membership

b- infuenced congress to pass a bill on labor's right to collective bargaining

c- crippled the power of the steel workers to unionize

d- was the last successful case of management's use of violence to break a strike

e- showed that a cooperative strike could succeed

Answer 1

a.) The UMW wasn't involved - it was a strike by steel workers.
b.) No such law was passed for decades after the event.
c.) This is correct - the union was on perilous ground during the strike, and the murder of Henry Clay Frick by an anarchist completely undermined the union's support.
d.) Management didn't purposefully use violence.
e.) The strike utterly failed...

So the answer is c.