Source: Official Guide Revised GRE 1st Ed. Part 4; Set 4; #4
According to the passage, Pessen indicates that all
Zhenghui Li
Hi, how do we know "B Many of them were able to increase their holdings" is true?
In the passage, it only says that "in several cities the wealthiest one percent constantly in creased its share ……". I can't get enough information to verify whether "many of " the very rich were able to increase.
So what does "many of them" precisely mean? Does it mean a certain range or just the vague "some" ?
Jun 20, 2018 • Comment
David Recine
That's a great question, Zhenghui. There are two things at play here. First, "several" can be a synonym for "many." "Many" itself means "a significant number." This makes it a less vague term than "some," since "some" simply means "an amount." ("Some" can be "few" or "many.")
In addition, the passage talks of:
"Pessen... concluding from them that the undoubted progress toward inequality in the late eighteenth
century continued in the Jacksonian period...."
If Pessen feels that income inequality continued, it's strongly implied that he feels a significant number of the rich got richer. So that's a secondary support to the idea that Pessen believed that "many" of the very wealthy were able o "increase their holdings," i.e. get richer.
Jun 26, 2018 • Reply
Chris Lele
Oct 5, 2012 • Comment
Shubham Mahindru
what does "Jacksonian America was not a fluid," means ? Jacksonian America is eponym after president Andrew Jackson but what does "not a fluid" means ?
Jun 25, 2017 • Reply
Adam
Hi Shubham,
"Fluid" is an adjective describing, along with "egalitarian," the noun "society":
Jacksonian America was not a fluid, egalitarian society where individual wealth and poverty were ephemeral conditions.
In other words, society in Jacksonian America was not fluid or egalitarian if you were poor, you stayed poor; if you were rich, you stayed rich.
Jun 28, 2017 • Reply
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