How did hotels symbolize the American spirit in the 1820s-1840s?
a. Like democracy, they were open to all men, but closed to women; they also showed how easily people moved around physically, socially, economically, and politically.
b. Like democracy, they were open to all white men but closed to women, blacks, and Indians; they also showed how people were mobile—physically, socially, economically, politically.
c. Hotels were often sites of debauchery and illicit behaviors, symbolizing how the American spirit had deteriorated to one of debauchery not only in morals but also in economics, politics, and foreign affairs.
d. Hotels were expensive, demonstrating the entrepreneurial power of the American spirit: life is a race; all people may start the race in the same place, but those who run fastest and best will win.
e. Hotels were large, cavernous places, not the cozy warm places that old-fashioned inns were; they symbolized the size of America geographically, economically, and politically.
B
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