Jane Addams and Progressive Era

Related or referring to a city

Relating to farm areas and life in the country

An investigative journalist or reporter who focuses on exposing the problems in society.

Muckraker who photographed and documented many of Chicago's poor slum dwellers and living conditions.

An institution that provided various community services especially to large city immigrant and poor populations.

A rundown, overcrowded, dimly lit apartment building usually located in the slum areas of cities.

1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's Intenational League for Peace and Freedom. Founder of the social work profession. A social reformer who opened and operated the largest settlement house in Chicago called Hull House.

The most famous settlement house in America offering critical social services like health care, education, and foster care to the poor.

Hot, dimly lit, and dangerous factory where workers were subject to long hours for little wages.

muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen.

(1906) Federal consumer-protection law that required the government inspection of interstate meat shipments. Passed to require accurate labeling of ingredients, strict sanitary conditions, and a rating system for meats. Passed because of the public outcry over Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle".

The federal agency formed in 1913 and assigned the task of approving all food products and drugs sold in the United States.

March 1911 fire in New York factory that trapped young women workers inside locked exit doors; nearly 50 ended up jumping to their death; while 100 died inside the factory; led to the establishment of many factory reforms, including increasing safety precautions for workers.

Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income.

Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.

1920 Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. Women's right to vote a.k.a. women's suffrage.

WCTU All-women organization founded in 1874 to advocate for total abstinence from alcohol. The WCTU provided important political training for women (helped suffrage movement) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." Instrumental in banning alcohol and helping women get the vote.

A term borrowed from Italy and widely used in Russia to describe networks of organized criminal activity that pervade both economic and governmental securities in that country as well as activities. such as the demanding of protection money, bootlegging alcohol, bribing government officials, contract killing, and extortion.

Stands for Ku Klux Klan and started right after the Civil War in 1866. The Southern establishment took charge by passing discriminatory laws known as the black codes. Gives whites almost unlimited power. They masked themselves and burned black churches, schools, and terrorized black people. They are anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti-immigration & anti-homo-sexuality. They fought the American Mafia for influence of America during the Progressive era