Author Question: Why did the New York campaigns against vice (gambling, prostitution, saloons) ultimately fail? A) ... (Read 61 times)

CharlieWard · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Why did the New York campaigns against vice (gambling, prostitution, saloons) ultimately fail?

A) They could not recruit enough volunteers.
B) Members of anti-vice organizations divided over strategy.
C) The city's population was too large and ethnically diverse for reformers to curb all the illegal activities.
D) They lacked the funds needed to mount a successful campaign.
E) All of these choices

Question 2

The Salvation Army was

A) a branch of the military formed to clean up the slums.
B) organized along pseudo-military lines to provide food, shelter, temporary employment and morality to poor immigrant families.
C) a social-welfare organization based on new ideas of gently persuading the urban poor to adopt middle-class values.
D) organized by urban immigrants to police their own ghettos and improve living conditions.
E) formed to employ military tactics to force poor immigrants out of respectable middle class neighborhoods.