Social Reform in the Progressive Era Answers

What role did Frances Willard play in the Progressive movement?

Who was the founder of Hull House in Chicago, Illinois?

Jane Addams’s work most actively assisted

How did the temperance movement directly influence the prohibition of alcohol in the United States?

Which reforms did Horace Mann and other education reformers want to achieve? Select three options.free college educationexpanded private schoolsfree schools for all childrenmandatory education for alluniversal public school system

Who were the Muckrakers?

Which societal issue did Jacob Riis work to expose?

Read the quote from John D. Rockefeller.When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognised. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.–John D. Rockefeller, letter to The New York Times, 1932

Read the excerpt from How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis.One, two, three beds are there, if the old boxes and heaps of foul straw can be called by that name; a broken stove with crazy pipe from which the smoke leaks at every joint, a table of rough boards propped up on boxes, piles of rubbish in the corner. The closeness and smell are appalling. How many people sleep here? The woman with the red bandanna shakes her head sullenly, but the bare-legged girl with the bright face counts on her fingers—five, six! "Six, sir!” Six grown people and five children. "Only five,” she says with a smile, swathing the little one on her lap in its cruel bandage. There is another in the cradle.

Study the graph showing child labor statistics.