“Go into any of the ‘respectable’ tenement neighborhoods . . . you shall come away agreeing [that] . . . life there does not seem worth living. . . . [T]he airshaft. . . . seems always so busy letting out foul stenches . . . that it has no time to earn its name by bringing down fresh air.” —Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives Based on this quote and the title of his book, why do you think Riis wrote what he did? * A. to pressure public officials to tear down tenements in cities
B. to encourage public discussion of poverty in cities
C. to call attention to increasing criminal activity in cities
D. to dissuade further migration to cities from rural areas

1) the taiping rebellion was prompted from 1850-1864 and waged against the ruling of machu qing dynasty. the rebellion was caused by hong xiuquan and class differences, later leading to a radical change in social and economic structure.

3) karl marx, a believer of the principle of socialism, believed that the working class would have to free themselves from the exploitation of industrialists by establishing a radical socialist classless society where all industries and   property are owned by the state.

5) as indians revolt gained power, people found additional reasons to protest against the british rule. princely families joined the uprising due to changes to the inheritance law which made adopted children ineligible to assume the throne. this was an attempt by the british to control royal succession in the princely states that were nominally independent from the british.

the nationalists wanted a strong central government so the new country wouldn't fall apart.

- r3ktforgood ☕