Progressive Leaders

Jane Addams worked to help the poor and to stop the use of children as industrial laborers. She ran Hull House in Chicago, a center which helped immigrants in particular.  She was not alone in this reform movement Ms. Addams had a friend that helped her make her dreams of reform come true she was Ellen Star Gates. 


Jane Addams Good Work
Jane Addams Life
Jane Addams Short Facts

Upton Sinclair exposed the working conditions in the Meat Packing Industry located in Chicago, Illinois.  He was a writer that decided to expose the filthy conditions that existed in these processing plants. 

Upton Sinclair Life
Upton Sinclair Changes America

Lincoln Steffens
Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens

Ida B. Tarbell
Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil
The Woman that took on the Man behind Standard Oil






 

Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis was an immigrant that came to America from Denmark in the middle of the 1800s at the age of 17.  In order to survive he had many jobs which included: ironworker, carpenter, bricklayer, and salesman.  He went to school and learned English and eventually he got a job as a police reporter with the New York Tribune...(newspaper). His job was to cover crime and that led to his becoming a Muckraker a person the exposed the evils of America.

Through his picture taking of crime in lower Manhattan Jacob Riis became aware of the poverty and hardships existed for immigrants in NYC.  Riis felt the best way to display these issues was to take pictures of the slums and tenements in Manhattan. " A picture is worth a thousand words." Riis taught himself photography and traveled lower Manhattan taking pictures.  He then created a picture book How the Other Half Lives. 

Once Americans saw these pictures they could no longer deny the harsh conditions in which immigrants lived in the largest city in America.  As a result this led to the Progressive Movement.

All groups are to use their graphic organizers to analyze pictures from Riis's book How the Other Half Lives.

Group # 1 - Choose 3 pictures and capture the details of each and record on the organizer.  Remember the organizer is double-sided - follow the directions on each side.

Picture # 1                           Picture # 2                         Picture # 3


Group # 2

Picture # 1                         Picture # 2                         Picture # 3


Group # 3

Picture # 1                         Picture # 2                         Picture # 3