11/16 wrap up

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives is a study of

• Jim Crow segregation and its effect on African American

• the plight of Great Plains farmers in the 1890’s

• immigrant urban poverty and despair in 1890’s

• corruption in city political machines in the 1890’s

• the rise of industrial capitalists in the late nineteenth century.

Jacob Riis’s principal involvement in the reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was his effort to

• bar obscene materials from the United States mail system

• organize the transfer of urban orphans to homes in rural areas

• publicize poor housing and sanitation in urban tenements

• establish special homes for juvenile delinquents

• pass federal laws to end prostitution

Jacob Riis is best known for his work in the 1890s as a

• labor organizer and Socialist Party activist

• leader of the People’s Party

• reformer who encouraged new immigrants to homestead

• playwright whose dramas celebrated the assimilation of immigrants into American society

• journalist and photographer who publicized the wretched conditions in which many immigrants lived

How did Jacob Riis impact change in the end of the 19th century?