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Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that helped recently arrived immigrants
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the Tenements of New York is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums
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Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons
