What is used to measure the standard of living or quality of life

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

What was a immediate cause of the panic of 1837

Summarize how the changes in the u.s ecomony during world war ii affected african-americans and mexican farmworkers