You are a writer in the early 1900s. living in a major u. s. city, you see many unpleasant things each day: children as young as 8 working 12 hour days, women forced into a life of prostitution, and disgusting conditions at the local meat processing plant. you decide that you have had enough of this, and, using your literary skills, you plan to write a novel that will begin to address these issues. you hope it will cause enough outcry that the public- and the government- will take notice. this passage was written by someone who would consider themselves a member of the movement.

This prompt is describing a Progressive author. These writers, referred to as "muckrakers," wrote extensively about the darker side of urban life in hopes of drawing attention- both from citizens and elected officials- to the conditions that create such misery.

both are true, the congress does have the power to create banks, even if this power is not specifically described in the constitution, since there is nothing restricting it and there is power given to the congress to make "all laws which shall be necessary and proper". maryland was not allowed to tax a branch of the national bank operating there, and the supreme court decided that no state could. both of these topics were discussed in a decision of the mcculloch v. maryland case in 1819.