Why did the U.S. establish a protectorate over part of Samoa in 1889?
a. Business leaders feared encroachments on their investments there
b. To thwart Britain and Germany's efforts to weaken American influence on the islands.
c. To prevent Japanese incursion on the islands.
d. The islands were a source of income for the U.S.
e. To extend the boundaries of the frontier beyond the continental U.S.
b
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a. the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933, which encouraged employers and workers to bargain collectively. b. the passage of the Wagner Labor Relations Act in 1935, which gave further support to workers' efforts to unionize. c. the creation of the Committee on Industrial Organizing (CIO). d. the split between the CIO and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1937.
In its first several years, the Knights of Labor was
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