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31. What national change greatly improved America’s literacy rates in the 1800s?
  1. Compulsory education
  2. Territorial expansion
  3. Laying the railroads
  4. Abolishing slavery
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32. What role do syndicates play in the news industry?
  1. They operate chain newspapers.
  2. They control the media in certain regions.
  3. They gather and sell the work of journalists, photographers and others en masse.
  4. They organize collective bargaining for editors.
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33.

What allowed magazines to drastically reduce their prices in the late 1800s?

  1. Decreased postal fees
  2. Increased advertising revenues
  3. National deflation
  4. Innovations in color printing
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34. What is muckraking?
  1. Including unnecessary details to embarrass politicians
  2. Covering risqué stories about celebrities
  3. Targeting powerful people or groups to provoke action
  4. Writing untrue stories with a political agenda
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35. When did radio first become an important medium for disseminating news?
  1. During World War II
  2. During World War I
  3. In the 1890s
  4. During the Cold War
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