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Who was the head of Carnegie Steel during the Homestead Strike?

  • Andrew Carnegie

  • Henry Clay Frick

  • J.P. Morgan

  • John D. Rockefeller

Answer

Andrew Carnegie was the head of Carnegie Steel during the Homestead Strike of 1892. Industrialist Henry Clay Frick, acting on behalf of Carnegie, called in Pinkerton agents to reinforce strikebreaking measures, leading to a violent confrontation between the agents and steelworkers.
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