HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Jacob Riis, Emil Seidel, Federal Trade Commission
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Muckrakers a term used in american reform era to characterize reform-minded journalists who wrote for popular american magazines. They worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. Social gospel - a religious movement that arose in the united states in the late nineteenth century with the goal of making the christian churches more responsive to social problems, such as poverty and prostitution. Anti-saloon league leading organization lobbying for the prohibition in the us. Especially prevalent in the rural areas and the south. Eighteenth amendment effectively banned the sale, transport and production of alcohol making it illegal. Booker t. washington - an african-american educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the united states. Du bois - an american sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, pan- First african american to gain a doctorate and a founder of the national advancement of colored people. National association for the advancement of colored people (naacp) an african.
