What does Jacob Riis consider to be the greatest problem facing tenements, and what does he say is the underlying cause?

What does Jacob Riis consider to be the greatest problem facing tenements, and what does he say is the underlying cause?
What does Jane Addams mean when she says of the urban poor, “Their ideas and resources are cramped.”?

The People’s Party demands that the railroads, as well as the telegraph and telephone systems, should be publicly owned. In the context of the political and economic conditions of the 1890s, why do you think they made this demand? What benefit would they see in this?
Why would Henry Grady claim in 1886 that a New South of union and freedom had emerged? In what ways does Ida B. Wells-Barnett challenge Gradys claims?

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