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Chicago’s Hull House
A settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.Provided numerous services for the poor, many of whom were immigrants, that helped immigrants to learn about American culture and life. -
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people -
The jungle
Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It removed harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans.
