Pullman Strike

Target entity: Pullman Strike
Context triple: [Gilded Age, majorEvent, Pullman Strike]

• A. Great Railroad Strike of 1877
  The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was a massive, nationwide labor uprising by railroad workers protesting wage cuts and poor working conditions, marking one of the first major industrial strikes in U.S. history.
• B. Homestead Strike
  The Homestead Strike was an 1892 industrial labor conflict at Andrew Carnegie’s steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, that became one of the most violent and significant clashes between workers and management in U.S. labor history.
• C. Haymarket affair
  The Haymarket affair was an 1886 labor protest and bombing in Chicago that became a pivotal moment in the history of workers’ rights and the labor movement in the United States.
• D. Montgomery bus boycott
  The Montgomery bus boycott was a pivotal 1955–1956 civil rights protest in Alabama in which African Americans refused to ride city buses to challenge racial segregation, helping launch the modern Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.’s national leadership.
• E. NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
  NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. is a landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld federal power to regulate labor relations, marking a major expansion of Congress’s authority over interstate commerce.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Pullman Strike
Target entity description: The Pullman Strike was a landmark 1894 nationwide railroad workers’ strike in the United States that highlighted deep labor tensions and led to significant federal intervention in industrial disputes.

• A. Great Railroad Strike of 1877
  The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was a massive, nationwide labor uprising by railroad workers protesting wage cuts and poor working conditions, marking one of the first major industrial strikes in U.S. history.
• B. Homestead Strike
  The Homestead Strike was an 1892 industrial labor conflict at Andrew Carnegie’s steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, that became one of the most violent and significant clashes between workers and management in U.S. labor history.
• C. Haymarket affair
  The Haymarket affair was an 1886 labor protest and bombing in Chicago that became a pivotal moment in the history of workers’ rights and the labor movement in the United States.
• D. Montgomery bus boycott
  The Montgomery bus boycott was a pivotal 1955–1956 civil rights protest in Alabama in which African Americans refused to ride city buses to challenge racial segregation, helping launch the modern Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.’s national leadership.
• E. NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
  NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. is a landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld federal power to regulate labor relations, marking a major expansion of Congress’s authority over interstate commerce.
• F. None of above. chosen