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bucstennis@aim.com · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

What was one of the changes that transformed American newspapers in the decades before the Civil War?

A) Publishers had to increase the price in order to maintain a profit.
B) Fewer newspapers were printed because Americans turned to other sources of information.
C) Most of them became semi-official organs of national political parties.
D) They began to print more political and commercial news rather than celebrity news.
E) They began to print human-interest stories rather than just political and commercial news.

Question 2

Transcendentalism was the belief that

A) All people (male and female; black and white) were equal in their shared humanity.
B) each person should discover truth on their own.
C) the true source of creativity was the divine.
D) women and men should each occupy and dominate their own separate spheres in society.
E) human beings' true nature was revealed by their outer demeanor.