Horatio Alger influenced American society by
A) propagating the "rags to riches" idea.
B) describing the perilous conditions in factories and lobbied Congress to regulate them.
C) organizing workers into the National Labor Union.
D) convincing many Americans that the Anglo-Saxon race was superior to all others.
E) leading a movement to expand public education to include all children in the United States.
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