Progressive Era - created from Mind Map

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Immigrant living conditions

Big businesses

Women's rights

Racial discrimination

Environmentalism

working conditions

Jane Addams started the Hull House

Hull House housed immigrants looking for work

Hull House provided social and educational opportunities for immigrants

Jacob Riis- writer who wrote about the terrible living conditions in big cities, slums

Sherman Antitrust Act- outlawed monopolies

Clayton Antitrust Act- clarified and strengthened Sherman Antitrust

National American Suffrage Association- fought for women's equality

19th Amendment- women't suffrage and equality

Alice Paul- women's advocate to help secure 19th amendment

NAACP- group created to fight for equality of African Americans

Tuskegee institute- school for colored teachers in Alabama started by Booker T. Washington

John Muir- advocate for preservation of wilderness

Gifford Pinchot- first chief of the US forest service

Meat Inspection Act- prohibited the selling of misbranded meat and prepared under insanitary conditions

Pure Food and Drug Act- prohibited the sell and manufacturing of misbranded food and drugs

Upton Sinclair- writer who wrote about conditions in meat packing industry

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