In 1904, a Boston newspaper stated, "In the United States of today, everyone is middle class. The resort to force, the wild talk of the nineties are over. Everyone is busily, happily getting ahead." What was the focus of the "wild talk of the nineties"?
A) futuristic technological advances
B) advances in industrialization
C) war and conquest
D) morality and religion
E) social, economic, and racial reforms
Answer: E
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