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☆☆☆☆☆Many progressive reformers targeted city officials who built corrupt organizations called political machines.
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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.
Asian Americans put their land in their children names
The spread of diseases is one effect of crowded tenement living.
to allow citizens to select candidates for elections
riis photographed rat-infested tennements
Bryan toured the country and spoke directly to the people
