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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. -
Settlement Houses
Reformist social movement with the goal of getting the rich and poor to live more closely together in an interdependent community. (Jane Addams) -
Chicago’s Hull House
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 -
Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. -
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. -
Women’s Suffrage
The right to vote for women, given by the 19th Amendment in 1920. -
How the Other Half Lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. -
The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
NAACP
The NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color." W. E.B. -
Prohibition/Temperance
The movement to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol, which went into effect with the 18th amendment in 1920.
