THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Problems faced by those living in the inner city, such as poverty and poor living conditions
|
|
|
Haphazard practiced in Chicago meat packing plants, such as rats running along the meat
|
|
|
Political corruption in big cities where politicians were more concerned with profit and politics
|
|
|
Abuses on farmers committed by the railroad company
|
Detailed explanation-1: -How the Other Half Lives was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle class.
Detailed explanation-2: -His book, How the Other Half Lives (1890), stimulated the first significant New York legislation to curb poor conditions in tenement housing. It was also an important predecessor to muckraking journalism, which took shape in the United States after 1900.
Detailed explanation-3: -The book explains the plight of working children; they would work in factories and at other jobs. Some children became garment workers and newsies (newsboys). Riis describes a system of tenement housing that had failed, as he claims, because of greed and neglect from wealthier people.
Detailed explanation-4: -Slum dwellers in India regularly deals with problems such as lack of clean water, constant migration at slums, no sewage or waste disposal facilities, pollution, and unsanitary living conditions. High levels of pollution, lack of basic needs, and room-crowding are some of the basic characteristics of slum housing.