Which of the following is true of urban housing conditions in the late nineteenth century?
a. Because of the construction of model tenements in most American cities, even the poor had clean,affordable housing
b. Because population growth outpaced housing supplies in many large cities, low-income families oftenexperienced extreme overcrowding.
c. Legislation establishing a national housing code made inhumane living conditions a thing of the past.
d. In many cities, urban renewal projects funded by the federal government displaced the poor to cardboardshanties.
b
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A) royal guards B) foreign mercenaries C) drafted Frenchmen D) professional soldiers
Transcendentalism
A) ?was a movement founded in the south. B) ?was based on the suppression of romanticism. C) ?argued that human reason was the best tool for understanding. D) ?argued that humans should seek to transcend their senses and come to understand truth. E) ?was a term coined by Henry David Thoreau.
The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments:
a. did not demand voting rights for women because the participants were so divided on that issue. b. was modeled on the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution. c. was written primarily by the Grimké sisters. d. condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women. e. inspired Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to become abolitionists.
Which of the following was a key provision of the Contract with America?
A) campaign finance reform B) an end to legal abortion C) universal healthcare D) stronger environmental regulations