The middle class was provided with vacations justified by the appearance of usefulness and self-improvement at an institution named in New York’s Adirondacks, the

a. camp meeting.
b. Chautauqua. c.
lyceum.
d. Turnverein.
e. religious summer camps.


ANS: B

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