WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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John D. Rockefeller
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Jacob Riis
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Jane Addams
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Andrew Carnegie
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Jacob Riis was born in Ribe, Denmark in 1849, and immigrated to New York in 1870.