President Grover Cleveland justified sending federal troops to break the Pullman strike of 1894 on the grounds that
a. the union's leader, Eugene V. Debs, was a socialist.
b. strikes against railroads were illegal.
c. the strikers were engaging in violent attacks on railroad property.
d. shutting down the railroads threatened American national security.
e. the strike was preventing the delivery of U.S. mail.
e
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