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Chicago's Hull House
Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. With its innovative social, educational, and artistic programs, Hull House became the standard bearer for the movement that had grown, by 1920, to almost 500 settlement houses nationally. -
How the Other Half Lives
a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the bad living conditions in New York City overcrowded poor streets. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the very poor people to New York City's upper and middle class. -
The Jungle
The Jungle was Upton Sinclair's infamous novel that was a story that brought to light the problems in the meat industry. It was tied to the rise of the Progressive Era was all about getting the government more involved with society problems instead of letting society take care of itself through natural selection. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
a law passed in 1906 to remove 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 NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color."
