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Settlement houses
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness. -
Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the late 19th century, besides women working for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms, women sought to change voting laws to allow them to vote. -
Progressive era
Movement from the 1890s to 1920s to support widespread social activism and political reform across the United States. The main objectives were to eliminate problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political/economic corruption in government from the Gilded Age. -
Meat inspections act
The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
The pure food and drug act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey. -
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. -
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. -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933
