Horatio Alger influenced American society by
A) propagating the rags to riches idea.
B) describing the perilous conditions in factories and lobbied Congress to regulate them.
C) organizing workers into the National Labor Union.
D) convincing many Americans that the Anglo-Saxon race was superior to all others.
E) leading a movement to expand public education to include all children in the United States.
Question 2
Which the immigrants in the West bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s?
A) Jewish immigrants
B) Chinese immigrants
C) Irish Catholic immigrants
D) Russian immigrants
E) Mexican immigrants
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