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How Did Hotels Symbolize the American Spirit in the 1820s-1840s

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How did hotels symbolize the American spirit in the 1820s-1840s?


A) Like democracy, they were open to all men, but closed to women; they also showed how easily people moved around physically, socially, economically, and politically.
B) Hotels reflected the cultural changes-particularly the blurring of class distinctions-that accompanied the extension of the franchise in the period.
C) Hotels were often sites of debauchery and illicit behaviors, showing that Americans had become morally bankrupt.
D) Hotels were expensive demonstrating the entrepreneurial power of the American spirit.
E) Hotels were large, cavernous places, not the cozy warm places that old-fashioned inns were; they symbolized the size of America geographically, economically, and politically.

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