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Born in western Pennsylvania. She told the history for the "Standard Oil Company". After she went to college she bacame a popular series writer for McClure's.
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He was the AFL union leader. Gompers used same structure of organization as the trusts. The AFL group excluded unskilled workers.
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Settlement house worker. He attacked irresponsible tenement owners. He was the secretary of New York State Tenement House of Commission.
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Led a big crusade against alcohol. The ASL or the Anti-Saloon League was also in this union. There was thousands of volunteer speakers that were speaking for this crusade.
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this group opposed capitalism. this group consisted mostly of Gompers and AFL unions.This was found in Chicago.The leader of the IWW is named William Haywood.
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Theodores speech described this man as a "muckrake who fixes his eyes." A Muckraker is someone who rakes up the exposed muck or filth of the socitey.the image from Theodores speech and stuck with every one.
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A famous architect and city planner. Produced a plan for redesigning the city of Chicago. His was the first plan to redesign Chicago.
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Women usually worked as factory workers, store clerks, and laundresses. didnt make much money in a week at least $6. if you worked to fast you were punished!
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500 employees most of them being young were caught in a fire. this fire was started by a fire in the rag bin. people from the top floors were trapped and the elevators were jammed they could not get out. 140 people were killed.
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Congress propsed this very amendment. This barred manufacture, sale, and distirbution of alcoholic drinks. The states ratified this amendment in 1919