Correct. The answer is b. The evidence presented in sources 1 and 2 suggests that Americans were eager to see national political figures as regular people and that they sought personal connections with them.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The evidence presented in sources 1 and 2 suggests that Americans were eager to see national political figures as regular people and that they sought personal connections with them.

Correct. The answer is c. The sources suggest that, in the 1880s, presidential candidates needed to be able to commit to many long days of speaking and greeting the public, but that wealth was not a precondition for the presidency.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The sources suggest that, in the 1880s, presidential candidates needed to be able to commit to many long days of speaking and greeting the public, but that wealth was not a precondition for the presidency.

Correct. The answer is c. The article claimed that both Democrats and Republicans spent considerable amounts of money on campaign orators, printing, and house-to-house canvassers in each state. It implied that the parties’ plans to incorporate phonographic records and stereopticons into their campaign strategies would increase their budgets even further.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The article claimed that both Democrats and Republicans spent considerable amounts of money on campaign orators, printing, and house-to-house canvassers in each state. It implied that the parties’ plans to incorporate phonographic records and stereopticons into their campaign strategies would increase their budgets even further.

Correct. The answer is a. Industrialization had a critical impact on the conduct of presidential campaigns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It served as an impetus for advertising, which both shaped and reflected campaign strategies. It created the transportation networks that made it possible for the electorate to seek out presidential candidates and for candidates to travel to meet the electorate, and it built the wealth that industrialists could then direct to the political candidates they believed would serve their interests.

Incorrect. The answer is a. Industrialization had a critical impact on the conduct of presidential campaigns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It served as an impetus for advertising, which both shaped and reflected campaign strategies. It created the transportation networks that made it possible for the electorate to seek out presidential candidates and for candidates to travel to meet the electorate, and it built the wealth that industrialists could then direct to the political candidates they believed would serve their interests.