Question

How did the spread of information expose Americans to new ideas?(2 points)
Responses

Industrialist elites were able to see images and read the words of people who lived far away for the first time.
Industrialist elites were able to see images and read the words of people who lived far away for the first time.

Working-class Americans were able to see images and read the words of people far beyond their homes and outside their lived experience.
Jim Crow laws increased literacy, which helped spread information, so more people were reading new information.
Jim Crow laws increased literacy, which helped spread information, so more people were reading new information.

Working-class Americans were unable to work outside their homes in rural areas, which meant they had time to spread information.

Answer 1

Correct answers (2 points):
- Industrialist elites were able to see images and read the words of people who lived far away for the first time.
- Working-class Americans were able to see images and read the words of people far beyond their homes and outside their lived experience.

Brief explanation: Improvements in printing, cheap newspapers and magazines, telegraphy, rail distribution, and photography made news and images widely available, exposing both elites and the working class to new ideas and distant events.