*Jacob riis was born 1849
* he was a Danish-American social reformer (muckraker)  
*he used his photograph skills to expose the horrors of tenement and the lives of poor people
*Wrote a famous picture book containing these images called" other half lives" 
* used new indicative "flash light" to take pictures in the dark tenements

1830-1885 Hellen Hunt Jackson was an American poet and writer who became an activist for better treatment of Native Americans. Her most famous novel was Romona that was written in 1884. It dramatized the governments treatment of Native Americans. This attracted attention for her cause.

novelist and essayist who fought for Native American rights. Her work improved the treatmeant of Native Americans by the US government. One of her novels, Ramona, attracted a lot of attention to her novel. She attended a lecture by the Ponca Chief Standing Bear, who described the forcible removal of the Ponca Indians from their Nebraska reservation and transfer to the Quapaw Reservation in Indian Territory, where they suffered from disease, climate and poor supplies. This caught her attention.  She exposed the government's violation of treaties with the Indian tribes and documented the corruption of US Indian agents, military officers and settlers who encroached on and stole Indian lands. She wrote  a book that is considered her most important, A Century of Dishonor. She sent a copy of the book to each member of Congress with a quote from Benjamin Franklin on the cover. The book condemned state and federal Indian policy, detailed the history of broken treaties and called for significant reform in government policy toward Native Americans.