What was the effect of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
A) It demonstrated that immigrants, especially those from China, had reached such numbers that they were becoming highly influential in compromising with executives to meet their needs.
B) It won higher wages for railroad workers due to the participants' persistence and the sympathy of influential individuals who had followed the events in the newspapers.
C) It was the last nationwide labor uprising because it convinced other workers that such events were fruitless and that the government did not care enough even to send troops.
D) It revealed how polarizing the relationship between the working poor and executives had become and ended when the workers, who lacked organized bargaining power, returned to work.
E) It was not taken seriously because only white working men participated, having failed to convince the large numbers of women and minority laborers to join the protesters.
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