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Prohibition/Temperance
A movement to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol. It went into effect with the 18th amendment in 1920. -
Women’s Suffrage
The right to vote for women, given by the 19th Amendment in 1920. -
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 House
A reformist social movement with the goal of getting the rich and poor to live more closely together in an interdependent community. -
Chicago's Hull House
It was a settlement house that gave women an alternative to domestic labor, provided social services for poor people, and assisted displaced farm workers into city life. -
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. -
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
This was a book published by Jacob Riice, about the studies on tenement housing that failed due to greed and neglect from wealthier people. -
The Jungle
This was a novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair, who wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in industrialized cities. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
A law established from muckraking journalists who had long reported on the appallingly unsanitary conditions of the country’s manufacturing plants, especially those in Chicago’s meat-packing industry. It wasn’t until after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle that Congress moved on legislation that would prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs or medicines, and liquors. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an american civil rights organization.
