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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 (named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull) opened to recently arrived European immigrants. -
How The Other Half Lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York. Riis often does have an "ethnic hierarchy," often its most extreme towards the Chinese. Riis ends How the Other Half Lives with a plan of how to fix the problem. -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Sinclair uses The Jungle to highlight his disgust with capitalism and the wealthy people who made their fortunes off the sweat and mistreatment of their workers. Jurgis loses everything, and only rises again at the end of the novel as a direct result of aligning himself with the socialist party. -
Pure Food and Drug act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act. The first federal law regulating foods and drugs -
NAACP
The NAACP or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established in 1909 and is America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. It was formed in New York City by white and black activists, partially in response to the ongoing violence against African Americans around the country. In the NAACP’s early decades, its anti-lynching campaign was central to its agenda. Today the NAACP has more than 2,200 branches and some half a million members worldwide.
