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Chicago`s hull house
Settlement houses were organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources. -
how the other half lives
How the Other Half Lives also inspired reform on a national scale. The Department of Labor published The Housing of the Working People in 1895, which was the second major tenement study of the decade. -
the jungle
The jungle 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
The Pure Food and Drug Act prohibited the interstate transportation and sale of impure, contaminated food. The law was an important element of Roosevelt's Square Deal Domestic Policy and an important piece of legislation during the history of the Progressive Era. -
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.
