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Working

Conditions

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire caused 146 deaths and 75 injuries

Since so many people did the same jobs, deaths were not seen as important.

Immigrant Living Conditions

The housing was unsanitary and unsafe as well as overcrowded. Many died from diseases.

Jane Addams, Upton Sinclair, and Jacob Riis were some of the people who fought for better living conditions.

Jane Addams founded the Hull house.

Riis documented the working conditions.

Sinclair wrote a book about the conditions.

Big Business

Provided jobs for thousands of people and sold products across the country

The working conditions were terrible and led to a downfall.

Environmentalism

Issues such as sanitation and health and the working conditions were handled.

John Muir

He saw what the people needed and wanted to set aside pristine land for spiritual value.

Gifford Pinchot

He is the father of American Forestry

National Wildlife Refuges banned shipment of species that were killed illegally.

Women's Rights

Women's clubs were formed and different groups focused on the equality for women.

President Woodrow Wilson said that he supported the women's suffrage ammendment.

Alice Paul

Led the national women's party and demanded voting rights and organized marches and protests.

National American Suffrage Association

Nineteenth Ammendment

Women got the right to vote.

Jane Addams

Founded the Hull House in Chicago

Woodrow Wilson

He was the Democratic Party nominee and when he was elected his ways were more towards Roosevelt's approach.

Signed the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914.

Racial Discrimination

Reform moved African Americans farther from the American public life especially in the South.

Booker T. Washington

He created a facility called the Tuskegee Institute of Alabama that provided industrial education and vocal training.

NAACP

It is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.