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How did Jacob Riis help the situation of immigrants in America's cities?
Riis campaigned for improvement in living conditions in the cities. His book How the Other Half Lives was very influential.
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Urban reformer Jacob riis is associated with being an advocate against what atrocity?
he wrote about child labor and the harmful health and social consequences children who worked in factories faced.
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Jacob Riis was most known for his late 19th century work in exposing the horrid living conditions?
in urban slums and ghettos.
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What did Liclon Steffens Jacob Riis Ida Tarbell and John Spargo have in common?
They were Muckrakers and fought to end social problems that were occurring in the United States.
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What was Jacob Riis famous for?
I believe he was famous for writing an expose type report called "How The Other Half Lives", was on the terrible poverty stricken tenements of immigrants who lived in the Lowe…r East Side of Manhattan. He's a prime example of the term "muckraker" (MORE)
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Did Jacob Riis have a wife?
Yes he did. He married his childhood sweetheart in 1876, and they raised a family. But, she died in 1905. However, 2 years later he remarried to his young secretary.
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John Dewey and Jacob Riis were activists in the move to make progressive reforms?
John Dewey and Jacob Riis were activists in the move to make progressive reforms in the system used in public education. They wanted to create better educational facilitie…s. (MORE)
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Was Jacob Riis a populist?
Jacob Riis was a populist. He is best known for being a photojournalist muckraker who captured scenes of poverty. A muckraker was an investigative journalist.
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What is the answer to 20c plus 5 equals 5c plus 65?
20c + 5 = 5c + 65 Divide through by 5: 4c + 1 = c + 13 Subtract c from both sides: 3c + 1 = 13 Subtract 1 from both sides: 3c = 12 Divide both sides by 3: c = 4 20c + 5 = 5c …+65 20c - 5c= 65 - 5.
15c = 60.
15c/15 = 60/15.
c = 4 (alternative method). (MORE)
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What were Jacob Riis Ida Tarbell and Margaret Sanger best known for?
Jacob Riis was a photographer that showed the problems of the poor. Ida Tarbell showed the evil of Standard Oil. Margaret Sanger helped poor women that needed birth contro…l. Collectively they helped the poor. (MORE)