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Chicago's Hull House
The Hull House was a settlement house that was co- founded by Jane Addams. The Hull House opened to recently arrived European immigrants. -
How the Other Half Lives
This novel was a photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York. -
The Jungle
The Jungle is a novel by Upton Sinclair. The Jungle exposed the appalling working conditions in the meat packing industry. He described that the meat were diseased, rotten, and contaminated this shocked the public and which led to new federal safety food laws. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act prohibited the sale of misrepresented food an drugs in the interstate commerce. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of colored people. It is a civil rights organization as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans.
