Josiah Strong's Comments That "The City Has Become a Serious

question 30

Multiple Choice

Josiah Strong's comments that "The city has become a serious menace to our civilization…It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant…here roughs, gamblers, thieves, robbers, lawless and desperate men of all sorts, congregate…" reflect nativist comments found in which of the following writings?

• A) How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York
• B) the 1892 Platform of the People's Party
• C) Our Country: Its Possible Future and Present Crisis
• D) the text to "The Cross of Gold" speech

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