Social Reform

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This paper discusses the works of Jacob Riis and Jane Addams. It explores the work of the Populist Party in the U.S. in the late 1800s. The author expands on the solutions of all three to pressing problems of the day, including solutions or reforms they proposed.

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"Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States from Denmark with the hope of making enough money to marry the daughter of a wealthy man in his native Denmark. Riis he was not prepared for what he found when he arrived in New York City. America was in the grip of a depression. There were thousands of people in New York City alone who were homeless and jobless. For three years Riis suffered poverty and near starvation ..."

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