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WhattoUnderstand · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

What do these budgets reveal about lifestyles for urban laborers and professionals in the 1890s?

A) Urban laborers ate healthy foods and had a good diet.
B) Expenses for urban laborers outweighed the income of one male wage earner.
C) Most professional workers lived within the urban center of cities.
D) Living conditions in rental units were similar for urban workers and urban professionals.

Question 2

What was the fate of most fortune seekers who headed west to mine for gold?

A) A large majority were able to easily extract gold at the surface and become very wealthy.
B) Most did not get rich and eventually worked as wage laborers for large mining corporations.
C) Many set up boomtowns and mining camps that were relatively safe and free of crime.
D) Most bought land titles and settled down as respectable farmers.

Question 3

Who was a business executive in the postwar era describing when he stated that these people's jobs were to see that Americans are never satisfied?

A) automobile manufacturers
B) advertisers
C) cigarette makers
D) credit card issuers