How successful were business people in overcoming the problems that confronted them in the last third of the nineteenth century?

2. How successful were business people in overcoming the problems that confronted them in the last third of the nineteenth century?

3. How did some urban housing reforms of the late nineteenth century eventually add to urban blight?

4. Why was it so difficult to resolve such issues as the spoils system, the tariff, and bimetallism, which consumed congressional energies in the late nineteenth century?