Sunday, January 10, 2016

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






 

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