Why did the public fear early unions? A. The public believed that the unions were in favor of radical ideas.

B. The unions were organized by agents working for foreign governments.

C. The public did not want workers to have decent wages.

D. Workers made unreasonable demands.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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