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In the year 1892, what action did Berkman undertake that landed him in prison?

  • Public protest

  • Attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick

  • Bank Robbery

  • Fleeing the country

Answer

The attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick, industrialist and chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, was the event that led to Berkman's imprisonment in 1892. Motivated by his anarchist beliefs and outrage over the treatment of workers during the Homestead Steel Strike, Berkman saw Frick as a symbol of oppressive capitalism and sought to eliminate him as an act of social revolution.
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