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How the other half live
In the 1880s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. After the Civil War, the country transformed into an industrial superpower and became largely urban.[ -
Chicago hull house
was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House (named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull) opened to recently arrived European immigrants. -
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
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.
