Select all the correct answers. Imagine away as it is reading this text as part of a research project and needs to create a summary of it. Which two statements best summarize the main ideas of the text.

-The United States now includes many cities that have population over 100,000
-transportation and communication to have surgery to unify United States citizens
-historically innovations in travel lead to westward expansion in the United States
-Old maps of the United States show very little migration beyond the East Coast
-in the early years of United States most male citizens have the freedom to vote

How does crane's depiction of the way information was spread in the nineteenth century affect the novel? crane seeks to use the novel as a way to criticize the journalists of the time for how they glorified war as a means of union propaganda. by depicting the extent to which newspapers were circulated, crane seeks to expose the lack of unbiased reporting at the time. by giving newspapers a major role in the novel, crane seeks to make a connection between the increasing role of the military in national affairs and the decline of farming. crane captures the power of journalistic reports at a time when it was the primary means of transmitting information to a broad audience by showing its influence on henry.