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Which of the Following Accurately Describes the Events Surrounding the Lattimer

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Which of the following accurately describes the events surrounding the Lattimer Massacre?


A) Many workers, especially immigrants from central or eastern Europe, were killed while peacefully protesting dangerous mining conditions, and all of those accused of the killings were acquitted.
B) Violent protests led by anarchists broke out near an important harvesting machine company, and amid the confusion, an individual threw a bomb into the crowd, maiming or killing dozens.
C) White miners brutally murdered fellow African American miners out of fear that they would take their jobs, but a landmark court case resulted in sentencing the perpetrators to life in prison.
D) The federal government figuratively killed all major laws that effectively benefited Big Business in response to a series of unusually fatal mining accidents in Pennsylvania.
E) Swayed by unions, several elite factory owners dramatically resigned from their positions, and for the first time, a widespread public uproar ensued in response to poor working conditions.

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