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Industrialization was accompanied by urbanization, and a massive influx of immigrants, mostly from Eastern and Southern Europe. |
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![How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890)](2-riisTN.jpg) |
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This pioneering
work of photojournalism by Jacob
Riis focused on the plight of
the poor in the Lower East Side,
and greatly influenced future
"muckraking" journalism.
Though influenced by the prevailing racial attitudes about Jews, Italians, and the Irish,
Riis wrote with
genuine sympathy for his subjects,
and his work shocked many
New Yorkers. |
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Contains sections on the worker, unions, child labor, efforts at reform, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 |
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![The 1912 Election & Wilsonian Progressivism](5-wilsonTN.jpg) |
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Includes the 1912 election. |
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![Quackery: A Brief History of Quack Medicines & Peddlers](8-quackeryTN.jpg) |
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Perhaps no industry in the Progressive era represented the need for government reform better than the medicinal industry. This section presents a brief overview of the world of quackery in the late Nineteenth & and early Twentieth centuries. |
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