Significant medical developments in Victorian America __________
a. prevented tuberculosis, typhoid, and diphtheria
b. included the discovery that germs cause infection and disease
c. led to an increase in the number of hospitals and their use for medical care
d. could not stop the increasing infant mortality rate between 1877 and 1900
e. allowed psychologists to investigate the importance of genetics on human development
B
You might also like to view...
Discuss the beliefs of the Puritan Congregationalists in light of the idea of the covenanted community, and examine the impact of those beliefs on the social, political, and economic evolution of Massachusetts Bay colony between 1630 and 1640.
What will be an ideal response?
During the progressive era, the Socialist Party of America
A. grew stronger. B. renamed itself the Progressive Party. C. continued as it had in the past. D. grew weaker. E. virtually disappeared.
Richard Nixon tried to resist giving his taped conversations to the special prosecutor and the Congress by claiming that
a. portions of the tape were erased. b. they were his private property. c. the president possessed executive privilege (confidentiality). d. his obscenities and racial slurs would offend religious leaders. e. it would violate his right to privacy.
The picaresque novel dealt with the
A) adventures of heroic knights in a fantastic world inhabited by giants and wizards. B) problems of the new middle class. C) love affairs and intrigues of the nobility. D) seamy side of a world inhabited by rogues and vagabonds.