A residential apartment building, common in New York in the late 1800s, that was built on a tiny lot without consideration of proper lighting and ventilation was known as a

A) settlement house.
B) halfway house.
C) tenement.
D) slum.


C

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Discuss the economic systems of the Native Americans in the Plains, the Southwest, and the Northwest, and explain the role of white settlement and United States government policy in the decline of these systems in the late nineteenth century.

What will be an ideal response?

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Portuguese colonists on the coast of Brazil began to explore the interior of the continent primarily because

a. of the discovery of gold and diamonds. b. they wished to expand their sugar plantations inland. c. they needed more land for those coming from Portugal. d. of a desire for exploration of the unknown.

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Sun Yat-sen argued that which of the following had to be established before China would have political harmony once again?

A) social justice B) strong economy C) legalism-based government D) national religion E) foreign treaties

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Political progressivism originated in __________.

A. rural America B. the cities C. the West D. union halls and Grange lodges

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