HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture I No Lecture Outline of Current Lecture II Chapter 21 Progressivism from Grass Roots to the White House 1890 1916 cont Muckrakers The Jungle Pure Food Drug Meat Inspection Acts Addams Settlement House Movement Triangle Shirtwaist Fire B T Washington W E B DuBois NAACP Plessy v Ferguson Current Lecture Muckrakers Helen Hunt Jackson Ida Tarbell Jacob Riis Lincoln Steffens o All saw an evil ill sought to correct them Saw political corruption and encouraged public to speak up What they believed to be wrong they brought attention to via o Documents interviews research and photographs The Jungle Pure Food Drug Meat Inspection Acts Written by Upton Sinclair fiction 1906 Story took place in Chicago Sinclair met the immigrants that composed the workers of the meat packing industry o Met with them on a personal level name basis went out to dinner and to bars o Noticed many of the workers were missing limbs Wrote about fingers and arms being packaged into the meat Went into the meat packaging factories documented the sights Teddy Roosevelt read The Jungle and was outraged o Forced Congress to do something about the meat packing industry o If nothing would be done he threatened Congress saying he d show the book to the world and jeopardize the revenue of the meat industry Congress drew up the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Addams Settlement House Movement Addams woman do gooder well off from Chicago Noticed poor immigrants and their inability to assimilate Established settlement houses huge buildings divided up into rooms Each room had a subject that taught immigrants new things o Learned how to cook in one room learned how to brush teeth washed hands sew on buttons read and write Never was a house for living set up to come by day only to learn Addams wrote an autobiography 20 Years At Hall House documenting each step of the way Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Employed mainly immigrant women and their children o Sweatshops doors locked from the outside with no windows o Employed around 100 125 women building 2 3 stories Fire broke out no way out no ventilation o 99 women burned to death many more suffocated some bodies melted together Silver Lining New York State Factory Commission was created 56 new laws were established 2 weeks after the incident International Ladies Garment Workers Union was established B T Washington W E B DuBois NAACP Two of the most famous African American leaders for Civil Rights Washington promoted financial equality but not social equality o Wanted to tackle one issue at a time practical gradualist DuBois wanted full equality o Shamed Booker T Washington o Formed the NAACP in 1908 as an organization made to tackle desegregation Plessy v Ferguson Infamous handed down by the Supreme Court Segregated America institutionalized segregation Coined the phrase separate but equal Separate churches schools restaurants and Jim Crow laws ensued