What can you infer is the author’s primary purpose in creating this work? to show how tenements provided a safe sanctuary to the working poor

to help people understand how truly cramped and unsanitary these tenement houses were

to get the wealthy and middle classes to move back to their homes in the inner cities

Over time, historians have changed the ways they study the past because they have: o a. emphasized the study of oral history passed down in communities for generations. o b. started to explore history through the perspectives of many different groups. c. focused on uncovering archaeological evidence rather than analyzing documents. d. largely abandoned studying comparative and cultural history in favor of microhistory.