Chapter 195. Reflections on City Growth and City Government, Chapter 19

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Correct. The answer is b. The author’s main point in this section is that, with city bosses and urban reformers both angling for power, municipal governments sought to balance the interests of private enterprise and the public welfare as they managed the creation of new infrastructure, services, and institutions in the industrial cities of the late nineteenth century.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author’s main point in this section is that, with city bosses and urban reformers both angling for power, municipal governments sought to balance the interests of private enterprise and the public welfare as they managed the creation of new infrastructure, services, and institutions in the industrial cities of the late nineteenth century.

Correct. The answer is d. The author uses the example of the creation of comprehensive, free public school systems to demonstrate that late-nineteenth-century city governments considered public welfare as well as profits as they planned their cities’ growth.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author uses the example of the creation of comprehensive, free public school systems to demonstrate that late-nineteenth-century city governments considered public welfare as well as profits as they planned their cities’ growth.

Correct. The answer is a. The author argues that the central paradox that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century was the fact that the supposedly corrupt and criminal city governments succeeded in creating cities that included enduring and functional bridges, buildings, parks, libraries, and schools.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author argues that the central paradox that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century was the fact that the supposedly corrupt and criminal city governments succeeded in creating cities that included enduring and functional bridges, buildings, parks, libraries, and schools.

Correct. The answer is a. To support her argument that municipal government was a complex affair that involved numerous parties, the author describes Lincoln Steffens’s “Shame of the Cities,” which documented the ways that city bosses compromised with numerous other groups as they all struggled to build and administer cities at the turn of the twentieth century.

Incorrect. The answer is a. To support her argument that municipal government was a complex affair that involved numerous parties, the author describes Lincoln Steffens’s “Shame of the Cities,” which documented the ways that city bosses compromised with numerous other groups as they all struggled to build and administer cities at the turn of the twentieth century.

Correct. The answer is c. According to the author, city bosses enjoyed long success because they provided important services to the poor and immigrant communities they represented. These constituencies appreciated and depended upon the bosses, remained their staunch allies, and continued to reelect them year after year.

Incorrect. The answer is c. According to the author, city bosses enjoyed long success because they provided important services to the poor and immigrant communities they represented. These constituencies appreciated and depended upon the bosses, remained their staunch allies, and continued to reelect them year after year.

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