THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Upton Sinclair
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Lincoln Steffens
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Jacob Riis
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Frank Norris
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Detailed explanation-1: -New York City. When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked New York as the most densely populated city in the United States-1.5 million inhabitants. Riis claimed that per square mile, it was one of the most densely populated places on the planet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914) was a journalist and social reformer who publicized the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City in the late nineteenth century.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the late 1880s, Jacob Riis, himself a Danish immigrant, began writing articles for the New York Sun that described the realities of life in New York City’s slums. Riis was one of the first reporters to use flash photography, allowing him to take candid photos of living conditions among the urban poor.
Detailed explanation-4: -A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform, Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870.
Detailed explanation-5: -How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.