The National Board of Health gave cities and towns the authority to build sewage and sanitation system. true or false?

False

Explanation:

It is FALSE that The National Board of Health gave cities and towns the authority to build sewage and sanitation systems.

This is because the National Board of Health which existed shortly between 1879 to 1883 was charged only with the responsibility of only to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States of America.

This was expected to be carried out by the quarantine power given to the board.

d: their own individual powers within the new goverment

when world war i broke out across europe in 1914, president woodrow wilson proclaimed the united states would remain neutral, and many americans supported this policy of nonintervention. however, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the british ocean liner lusitania by a german u-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 americans. along with news of the zimmerman telegram threatening an alliance between germany and mexico, wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against germany. the u.s. officially entered the conflict on april 6, 1917.