THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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freedmen immediately after the Civil War
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farmers in the 1880s and 1890s
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urban poor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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Japanese and Chinese laborers in the late 1800s
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Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. These two people are the one responsible for drawing attention to the needs of those who are poor in the urban places of which is during the time of the late 19th century and as well as the early 20th century. Jacob Rii and Jane Adams are known to be as social reformers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Riis used the images to dramatize his lectures and books, and the engravings of those photographs that were used in How the Other Half Lives helped to make the book popular.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jacob Riis played a crucial role in publicizing the issue of sweatshops to the public with his exposé-style book, How the Other Half Lives (1890).
Detailed explanation-4: -While working as a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he did a series of exposés on slum conditions on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which led him to view photography as a way of communicating the need for slum reform to the public.
Detailed explanation-5: -His career as a reformer was shaped by his innovative use of photographs of New York’s slums to substantiate his words and vividly expose the realities of squalid living and working conditions faced by the inhabitants.