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Social Gospel
Protestant movement that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social injustice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war -
Chicago's Hull House
This was a settlement house, located in Chicago, made by Jane Addams that was occupied by immigrants who couldn't find a home. -
Muckrakers
Journalists who attacked business and government leaders as corrupt in order to raise awareness of the many issues left over from the Gilded Age. -
How The Other Half Lives
How The Other Half Lives is the 1890 photo journalism novel that talks about the bad living conditions in New York, this lead to muckrakers beginning to look for "dirt". -
Progressive Era
Movement to support widespread social activism and political reform across the U.S. The main objectives were to eliminate problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political/economic corruption in government from the Gilded Age -
Settlement Housing
Reformist social movement with the goal of getting the rich and poor to live more closely together in an interdependent community. (Jane Addams) -
The Jungle
The Jungle was Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel that talked about the problems inside the meat industry. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act prohibited the misbranded and adulterated food or drugs in interstate commerce. -
NAACP
NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that was founded in 1909 and was a civil rights organization. -
Women's Suffrage
The right to vote for women, given by the 19th Amendment -
Prohibition
The movement to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol, which went into effect with the 18th amendment
