... government, with influence from Progressives, could make positive and powerful reforms. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant and renowned journalist who's influential book How the Other Half Lives uses photography and statistical data and observations as instruments of reform, was distinctly progressive. He advocated, "...prevention of drunkenness by providing for every man a clean, comfortable home" (Riis 2). He demanded that the ... founded Hull House in Chicago in 1889, Florence Kelley, who pioneered laws to protect consumers, workers, and women, and John Dewey, who believed that, "...educa...

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