Urban planners and architects such as Daniel Burnham wanted to
A) rebuild the typical American city with stronger materials so that a catastrophe like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire would never be repeated.
B) reroute the flow of railroad and vehicular traffic at grade level directly through the heart of the city, so that all urban dwellers would see and appreciate such symbols of economic progress.
C) eliminate slums by building low-income housing on previously unused lakefront property.
D) rebuild the urban landscape to make cities more efficient and beautiful by including wide boulevards, imposing squares, monumental buildings, and parks.
E) improve highways leading to the suburbs so that merchants could build grand commercial palaces where the people could shop for all their needs
Question 2
Amusement parks were important to the urban poor because they
A) allowed the urban poor to be treated on the same terms as other economic classes.
B) provided an opportunity for a brief escape from life in the tenements.
C) showed the opportunities provided when you worked hard.
D) enabled female workers to escape from the control of their husbands.
E) provided construction and maintenance jobs for unemployed workers.
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Typical box used for the disposal of bagged, sealed, and autoclaved biological waste.
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Three polar bears investigate an American submarine that surfaced in ice-covered Arctic waters.