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☆☆☆☆☆The Assassination of President James Garfield
Jacob Riis wrote "How the Other Half Lives." He exposed the lives of the many poor Americans living in the slums of the city. These treachers include tenements in which many people crammed together to live in, hot beds which were the poorly made mattresses that they slept in, called hot beds because one person would go to work (usually in a factory) while the other slept and then they would rotate, so the beds would always be warm, and there were often no windows or it was one or two rooms with bunks and a makeshift stove in the middle of the room. Children would be playing in the dirty streets and illness was easily spread.
Jewish Americans, also the Asian Americans
political corrupting-=-= novanet!
it required hiring certain federal employees because of expertise, not political connections , novanet !!
Asian Americans put their land in their children names
to allow citizens to select candidates for elections
They were muckrakers who dramatized the need for reform
Women did not have the legal right to vote
Bryan toured the country and spoke directly to the people
