Which is true about lincoln steffens? a) he accepted government corruption as the price of doing business. b) he criticized people for believing that government corruption could not be stopped. c) he opposed tammany hall because of its support of foreigners. d) he supported tammany hall because it the urban poor.

The correct answer is B.

Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936) was a US journalist who was part of the generation of the muckrakers, because he dedicated his career to investigate corruption in the governments of US cities, and he severely attacked institutions and leaders for their inherent corruption.

He wrote the book "The Shame of the Cities", structured as a collection of articles. The purpouse of this work was, not to state the existence of corruption or to describe different manifestations of it, but to draw attention on the fact that it existed because citizens did nothing to stop it and, therefore, that citizens had become partners in crime.

B) he criticized people for believing that government corruption could not be stopped.

Explanation:

option d is correct. corroborated sources of historical evidence   is necessary to validate a claim about an event in history.

historians tend to use written sources, but audio and visual materials as well as artifacts are important objects that supply information to modern historians.

historical sources are usually divided into two categories: primary and secondary sources. depending on the historian's intent, some sources shift their designation. determining what type of sources toimplement, and the level of credibility and reliability of those sources, is a significant step in critical thinking for the historian.

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