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Reforming Business and Industry in the Progressive Era

Question 2 • MCPSS AL-Grade 6 United States Studies: The Industrial Revolution to the Present - Summer School 2026

By using detailed photographs, Jacob Riis was able to educate the American public about the everyday struggles faced by which group?

Answer
A
children
B
protesters
C
immigrants
D
women workers

Explanation

Jacob Riis used photographs and writing to expose the crowded, unhealthy conditions of tenement housing in cities such as New York. These reports drew attention to the poverty and hardships experienced by immigrants. The correct choice is immigrants; Riis’s work was not mainly about protesters or women workers.

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