First of all, the passage mentions street children by saying "children pitching pennies" and "kicks and cuffs are their daily diet". Also, pollution is touched in this passage as it mentions "summer stenches" which are bad smells that come because of urbanization and the drains that have foul smells (hence they mention "sink"). We also see how neighborhood noises and noisy people from all around the area show up in urbanized areas because of cramped spaces. Hence, quarreling is mentioned here as well as instances of profanity.
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In the last decade of the 19th century, African Americans suffered segregation, exclusion, discrimination and racism. The Civil War assured the freedom of around 4 million black people. Despite the adoption of the 14th amendment and being given legal rights to elect and be elected, black people faced huge social and political inequality.
In the South, state legislatures had passed a series of laws that impeded African Americans from participating in elections. Poll taxes and literacy tests were put in place and turned into formidable barriers for the black southern populations given their poverty and lack of education. Those were the Jim Crow laws.
In 1896, a landmark US Supreme Court decision upheld segregated but equal faciliities for different racial groups as constitutional, validating the Jim Crow laws. That was the situation of African Americans by the late 19th century.
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desert and sand that slowed wagons to crawl
The correct answer is - ancient Near East.
The Near East, or rather the Fertile Crescent, were the place were people first started to get involved into agriculture. This was taking place along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. These two rivers allowed the people to be able to produce large amounts of food because the soil was very fertile, and every year the fertile layers were renewed with the floods, it was very warm for most of the year, and they were also able to use the waters of the rivers for irrigation. People saw the potential and used it, which also triggered the rise of the first civilizations in the world.
