For a late-nineteenth-century unmarried working-class woman, why did amusement parks exert a powerful lure?
A) They offered opportunities to supplement meager wages through evening or weekend employment.
B) They provided opportunities for the entire family to have a wholesome outing.
C) They were places to meet friends, get away from parental supervision, and try out the latest dance steps.
D) They had employment bureaus where factory owners recruited for high-paying jobs.
E) They were places to buy bagels, baked potatoes, soda, and other foods and drinks not otherwise available.
Question 2
Josephine Shaw Lowell and the New York Charity Organization Society wanted
A) the federal government to take responsibility for providing for the urban poor.
B) their aid recipients to move towards self-sufficiency.
C) all aid to the urban poor to be administered through their organization.
D) all aid to the indigent should be eliminated.
E) charity to be provided in a discreet way that avoided drawing attention to those who were receiving the aid.
Siberian Yupik woman holding walrus tusks
A photograph of a woman with exophthalmos. This condition is associated with hypersecretion of the t
Acromegaly. Photo of a woman illustrating the enlarged skull, jaw, and hands typical of acromegaly.
A Pokot married woman, Kenya.
Style of the Achilles Painter: WOMAN AND MAID
Early 20th century warming