What was one of the changes that transformed American newspapers in the decades before the Civil War?
A) Publishers had to increase the price in order to maintain a profit.
B) Fewer newspapers were printed because Americans turned to other sources of information.
C) Most of them became semi-official organs of national political parties.
D) They began to print more political and commercial news rather than celebrity news.
E) They began to print "human-interest" stories rather than just political and commercial news.
E
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A. Maji Maji B. Senegalese C. Boer D. Zulu
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a. land ownership. b. tithes. c. commemorative masses d. gifts from royal patrons. e. All of these.
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