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What is Nepotism

When a government official appoints a family member to a job.

Sentence with the word tenement

A tenement is a set of rooms in an apartment building. The tenement was up for rent.

Construction company of scheming stockholders

Credit mobilier.

How did the industrial revolution change working conditions for people

There was very little need for skilled labor

Who was the head of Tammany Hall

William Marcy Tweed

What was the spoils system

when the group that wins an election appoints its own unqualified people to the best jobs apex

Which invention was necessary to begin the modern music industry

The phonograph

Which of the following would not have been considered a white collar worker

A Custodian

a carpenter(apex)

Which group attended sporting events at the turn of the 20th century

All of the above=APEX

Which term referred to low paid workers and their families

The working class referred to low-paid workers and their families.

What were large apartment building that were often loud dirty and crowded called

Large apartment buildings that were often loud, dirty, and crowded were called tenements.

The following was not important invention of the early 20th century

the cotton gin

According to How the Other Half Lives why did sinks stink in tenements

They were filled with waste water.

Model tenements built to create better lives for the poor were

Nicer apartment buildings in the slums

Which of these is an example of government curruption

Cronyism

In How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis wrote With half a chance it might have lived but it had none. That dark bedroom killed it. What does this mean

Conditions in buildings in the slums often killed babies.

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