Progressive era

  • John D.Rockefeller

    John D.Rockefeller
    John Davison Rockefeller sr. was an american oil industry business magnate and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest american of all time, and the richest person in modern history.
  • Jacob Riis

    Jacob Riis
    Jacob August Riis Danish-American social reformer. Muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer.
  • Jane Adams

    Jane Adams
    Jane Addams known as the "mother" of Social Work was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
  • Alice Paul

    Alice Paul
    Alice Paul was an american suffragist, feminist, and womens rights activist and one of the main leaders and strategists of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • The Jungle

    The Jungle
    Author Upton Sinclair The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of meat packing industries.
  • Pure Food and Drug act

    Pure Food and Drug act
    the law was passed to prevent the manufacturing sale or transportation of food that could hurt the health of americans. such as drugs, medicine, liquor going across state lines.

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