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Chicago's Hull House
Hull-House was a settlement house in the United States founded by Jane Addams. It 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.
how the Other Half Lives was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880 s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class. -
The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
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 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was an organization founded as a result of a meeting between Du Bois and a group of African American and white progressives regarding the lynching of two African American men in Springfield, Illinois, the previous year.
