<span>An unintended result of Nixon’s revenue-sharing legislation was to the increased power of the federal government over the states. The main purpose of Richard Nixon’s revenue sharing is to give the local government and the state additional control over the expenditures of the federal dollars.</span>
It was mostly "c. The end of the Crusades" that helped to bring about an increase of trade within western Europe during this time, since this period had been previously dominated by mass violence that disrupted trade routes.
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 <em>"The Shame of the Cities", </em>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.