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No and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by res pieces Not so sweet photos of how the

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other half lived All right check out this excerpt Math

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of the senate Are doing you brother it's A whole

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appearance was running crazy Quilt all right And the question

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which of the following had the greatest impact on the

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pattern described in the excerpt and hear your potential answers

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Voting is All right well jacob rees the author of

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this excerpt made his name by taking a notebook and

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camera into the tenements of new york city in order

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to capture how the other half live in the book

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of the same name reese writes of a place divided

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by ethnicity describing a map that would show more stripes

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than on the skin of a zebra and mark colors

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than any rainbow on that guy sure knew howto painted

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pictures was a major factor leading to this ethnic divide

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a voting districts created by corrupt political machines Well though

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there certainly were corrupt politicians in the area they didn't

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go so far as to map out voting district based

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on nationalities or establish regulated ethnic neighborhoods Oh that's a

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swing and a miss for amc was this lack of

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intermingling influenced by de legislation that place quotas on immigration

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based on country Well some politicians did in fact passed

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legislation placing quotas on immigration but those laws didn't really

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affect immigrants that were already here in the country so

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d doesn't make the cut either which means that the

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main cause of this ethnic segregation was be immigrants desire

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to live Among people from their own country While now

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a fairly obvious conclusion one of reason major discoveries was

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that immigrants naturally tended toward living among people from their

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own country Does so be is the right answer In

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addition to being one of the first muckraking journalist reese

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was also a pioneer in the field of photography and

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his early adoption in the flash shined all kinds of 00:02:01.353 --> [endTime] light on the plight of new york City's poor

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