WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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working to reform the American public education system
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inventing the underground sewer system used in New York City
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pushing to stop illegal immigration into the United States during the Gilded Age
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using photography and picture shows to highlight the poverty in New York City tenements
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Detailed explanation-1: -Riis was among the first in the United States to conceive of photographic images as instruments for social change; he was also among the first to use flash powder to photograph interior views, and his book How the Other Half Lives was one of the earliest to employ halftone reproduction successfully.
Detailed explanation-2: -In addition to his writing, Riis’s photographs helped illuminate the ragged underside of city life. By the late 1880s, Riis had begun photographing the interiors and exteriors of New York slums with a flash lamp. Those photos are early examples of flashbulb photography.
Detailed explanation-3: -Working with a friend from the Health Department, Riis filled The Children of the Poor (1892) with statistical information about public health, education, and crime. He argued that teaching immigrant children about American democracy would help to make them productive citizens.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gilded Age reformers like Riis believed that poverty was the result of environmental conditions; thus, reform efforts could help the poor. Riis believed that moral citizens, regardless of their economic status, should be given a chance to improve their lives.