Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian: Making Mass Media: Newspaper Empires

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Correct. The answer is a. These sources show that urban newspapers contained stories and other material (such as sources 1, 3, and 4) that addressed the lives and experiences of the working class.
Incorrect. The answer is a. These sources show that urban newspapers contained stories and other material (such as sources 1, 3, and 4) that addressed the lives and experiences of the working class.

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Correct. The answer is c. The comic is fanciful in that it portrays children climbing and riding all over the street car, but it also depicts the realities of an urban population that was both dense and diverse by age, race, and ethnicity.
Incorrect. The answer is c. The comic is fanciful in that it portrays children climbing and riding all over the street car, but it also depicts the realities of an urban population that was both dense and diverse by age, race, and ethnicity.

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Correct. The answer is b. Reading this combination of sources, a middle-class reformer would likely have taken note of the articles’ focus on urban children. Sources 1 and 3 suggest that children in New York lacked adult supervision and engaged in dangerous behavior. Sources 4 and 5 indicated the economic pressures faced by newspaper boys and the corrupt strategies they pursued to sell their papers.
Incorrect. The answer is b. Reading this combination of sources, a middle-class reformer would likely have taken note of the articles’ focus on urban children. Sources 1 and 3 suggest that children in New York lacked adult supervision and engaged in dangerous behavior. Sources 4 and 5 indicated the economic pressures faced by newspaper boys and the corrupt strategies they pursued to sell their papers.

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Correct. The answer is b. This collection of sources, which emphasizes the sensationalism of mass-media newspapers and their circulation statistics, reveals that the publishers were primarily businessmen who sought to run successful and profitable companies. They did not publish their papers primarily to convey information, but did so to make a profit.
Incorrect. The answer is b. This collection of sources, which emphasizes the sensationalism of mass-media newspapers and their circulation statistics, reveals that the publishers were primarily businessmen who sought to run successful and profitable companies. They did not publish their papers primarily to convey information, but did so to make a profit.