Progressive era cartoon

Progressive Era (1890-1920)

By JuanArriaga78

  • Chicago's Hull House

    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. It was opened in Illinois, Chicago. It was made to help assist the immigrants. Its goal was to add American culture to the immigrants' native cultures, not to replace them

  • How the Other Half Lives

    How the Other Half Lives
    This was pioneering work of photojournalism created by Jacob Riis. This helped expose the squalid living conditions in New York City. He got the government to have tenement slums more modern and sanitized.

  • The Jungle

    The Jungle
    The Jungle is an American Novel written by Upton Sinclair. This book exposed the harsh work conditions the immigrants did and how horrible meat-packing was. This led to new laws being made to have more safety.

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act
    This law was made to restrict people into selling misbranded or adulterated food and drugs. This law was made after Upton released the book "The Jungle".

  • NAACP

    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