Frances Kellor- lawyer turned social reformer, believed poverty and inequality could be eliminated and that if Americans heard truth about millions living in urban slums, they would rise up and change things. Provided documents of wrongs in industrial America.

Like many progressives, thought environment was more important than heredity in determining ability, and happiness. Better schools/housing produce better citizens, went as far to argue criminals victims of environment. Helped to found the National Committee for Immigrants in America and Division of Immigrant Education w/in Dept of Education. Supported Roosevelt’s Progressive Party (which lost)

John Dewey- philosopher who wrote that ideas could be instruments for change. Experimented with progressive education, at Univ of Chicago replaced school desks with movable seats. �

Gifford Pinchot- chair of National Conservation Commission, US Division of Forestry, advocated selective logging, fire control, limited grazing.

Big Bill Haywood- cowboy, miner, prospector with passionate commitment to workers. “Continental Congress of working class” wanted to escape bondage of capitalism, and denounced Gompers and the Am. Fed of Labor. AFL not IWW was dominant labor movement.

Hull House- Adams started a coffee-house here in attempt to lure neighbors away from evils of saloon

Some topics in this essay:
Anti-Saloon League, Frances Kellor-, Payne-Aldrich Tariff, Jacob Riis, Muller Oregon, Management Chicago, Half Lives, Labor Committee, Trust Busting-, Comstock Law, child labor, child labor committee, meatpacking industry, progressive party, fed labor, middle-class americans, sherman anti-trust, labor committee, anti-trust act, sherman anti-trust act, national child labor, national child, birth control,