CCRA U.S. History Grade 11 Practice Questions - Oklahoma College- And Career-Readiness Assessment U.S. History Content, Grade 11 Exam

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Read the passage from Jacob Riis's *How the Other Half Lives* (1890): 'Be a little careful, please! The hall is dark and you might stumble over the children pitching pennies back there. Not that it would hurt them; day and night, their home is the street... Here is a room twelve feet square; five people sleep in it, two on a filthy mattress on the floor.' Which problem of turn-of-the-century American society was Riis attempting to expose?

The economic decline of rural agrarian communities during Western homestead expansion The corruption of federal civil service appointments under the political spoils system The deplorable living conditions and overcrowding in urban tenement housing The environmental damage caused by open-pit coal mining in Appalachian states

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The deplorable living conditions and overcrowding in urban tenement housing

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