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6 – “How the Other Half Lives”

– IQ: What were the effects or impacts of Muckrakers during the Gilded Age?

How do Muckrakers exemplify civic engagement?

– LO: Analyze the historical context of the gilded age in order to study an important progressive era movement – muckraking journalism.  Students will read excerpts and review images from Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives.

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