What people did to fix it was make better living area and made it easier to escape in case of a fire because of what happened at the triangle shirt fire. They cleaned up so it wasnt as sanitary.
Unofficially, there are over 260,000 people in the US with the first name Jacob.
Jacob Riis
Jacob Roggeveen was born on February 1, 1659 and discovered Easter Island in 1722 on Easter Island.
Jacobus is the Latin form of Jacob, and is still used in the Netherlands today. Jacob means 'supplanter' or 'holder of the heel'.
Jacobson means "son of Jacob", Jacob coming from the Hebrew name Yakov literally menaing "heel-grabber".
Jacob Riis
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"The slum is the measure of civilization."
Jacob Riis exposed the problem in tenements by taking pictures of the life in tenements. He showed these pictures to the government and to the people populated in areas which held a lot of tenements where many immigrants lived.
Jacob Riis was a photo-journalist (or muckraker) in the 1800s who believed that the way the poor were living was wrong. The tenements they lived in were dirty, unsanitary, and overcrowded. He took pictures of these conditions and convinced people to change them.
Jacob Riis
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It showed the terrible conditions of life in the slums.
It showed the terrible conditions of life in the slums.
One of Jacob Riis's articles was "How the Other Half Lives," which exposed the living conditions of immigrants in New York City tenements. He wrote this article to raise awareness about the poverty and squalor that many immigrants were living in, in order to advocate for social reform and improved housing conditions.