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Provided numerous services for the poor, many of whom were immigrants, that helped immigrants to learn about American culture and life.
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Pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880's.
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The Jungle was Upton Sinclair's infamous 1906 novel that was a story that brought to light the problems in the meat industry. It was tied to the rise of the Progressive Era was all about getting the government more involved with society problems instead of letting society take care of itself through natural selection.
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The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 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
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
