Describe a working-class neighborhood scene in New York City in 1900

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Answer: Working-class neighborhoods were busy slums with pollution in gutters, the water, and backyards where sewage was dumped in the open or through outhouses. Immigrant workers walked to work through ethnic-divided neighborhoods filled with horse-drawn wagons amidst lively street scenes of markets, street performers, and protesters.

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The organization of farmers that agitated for laws regulating railroads in the 1870s was called the

a. Farm Bureau. b. Farmers’ Federation. c. Patrons of Husbandry. d. Knights of the Soil. e. Farmers' Union.

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The French peasant uprising of 1358 is known as the __________.

A. Western rising B. pogrom C. jacquerie D. taille

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The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was

a. fishing. b. manufacturing. c. commerce. d. agriculture. e. slave trading.

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After Britain defeated Argentina in the Falkland Islands war of 1982, Argentina's military government was replaced by civilian rule

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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