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This activity contains 8 questions.

	In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis illustrated in words and pictures the dismal life of black sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the South.    True  False

	Because of their rather sedate taste in entertainment, nineteenth-century Americans opposed such frivolities as circuses and melodramas.    True  False

	Between 1877 and 1890, the middle-class American family was declining in its economic function, but increasing in emotional expression.    True  False

	In the late nineteenth century, American colleges and universities moved away from the traditional classical curriculum toward "reality and practicality."    True  False

	In the years 1877-1890, African Americans enjoyed more educational opportunities than did white women.    True  False

	Clarence Darrow argued that the "unjust condition of human life" produced criminals criminals were made, not born.    True  False

	The new social workers of the late nineteenth century produced theoretical and utopian studies on urban blight that neglected hard facts and details.    True  False

	The 1900 census showed that, for the first time, most Americans lived in cities.    True  False

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