Jacob Riis Reconstruction Era

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Jacob Riis studied how Americans lived in the city during the reconstruction period. He specifically tried to reveal the horrors that resided in the tenements of New York. He uses vivid imagery and multiple other strategies to show more privileged Americans how so many impoverished people lived. Thanks to his efforts, there was a movement toward better living conditions in cities all around the United States.
Riis was a newspaper reporter who began working on the effects of the industrial revolution to evoke social and government reform. Riis, an immigrant himself, was very poor in his first years as a New Yorker, and lived in police housing often without plumbing or bedding. Assigned a job to write for the police station, Riis had an

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