HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 18Outline of Last Lecture I. No LectureOutline 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. FergusonCurrent LectureMuckrakers- Helen Hunt Jackson, Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffenso 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 photographsThe 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 barso 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 outragedo 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 wayTriangle Shirtwaist Fire- Employed mainly immigrant women and their childreno Sweatshops, doors locked from the outside with no windowso Employed around 100-125 women; building 2-3 stories- Fire broke out – no way out, no ventilationo 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 equalityo Wanted to tackle one issue at a time; practical, gradualist - DuBois wanted full equalityo Shamed Booker T. Washington o Formed the NAACP in 1908 as an organization made to tackle desegregationPlessy 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