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Jacob Riis, writing for the New York Sun newspaper had published a book How the Other Half Lives. It exposes in picture and word description of the poor living conditions in New York slums. Riis’s book supports the accusation by many Progressives and Socialists that American capitalism shows inequality. (1890)
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Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley at an appearance in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901. McKinley died from being shot on September 14. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt moves on to be the president.
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Roosevelt wins the 1904 presidential election over Alton Parker. Progressives support Roosevelt’s “Square Deal”
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Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, showing the labor exploitation and unsanitary conditions in meatpacking industry. The novel, based on Sinclair’s own research in Chicago slaughterhouses.
