“after sneaking in there aboard had he met his influential figure, he would cut his compass, he thought to himself.” who said those words?

assessment is the missing word

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.

(b) britain had a much larger navy than the u.s.

(d) the u.s. had a small army compared to britain.