The Homestead strike showed that strikes could turn violent, and military intervention was possible. Option B is correct.
In 1892, the Carnegie Steel Company put more intense demands on production, triggering one of the most influential strikes in U.S. history. As the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers Union organized the strike, ten thousand strikers stormed the town of Homestead, Pennsylvania.
The Carnegie Steel Corporation,) capitalized at $25,000,000 and the world’s largest manufacturing firm at the time. It was also highly profitable, despite the violent fluctuations of the business cycle characteristic of the American economy in the late 19th century.
