Content Specification

SS.11.5.b.7: Students will trace reform efforts by individuals and the consequences of those efforts including: * Jane Addams and Hull House * Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives * New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt and the Tenement Reform Commission * Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and the Meat Inspection Act * Margaret Sanger and birth control * Ida Tarbell’s The History of the Standard Oil Company * Ida Wells and her writings about lynching of African Americans * Booker T. Washington’s contributions to education, including Tuskegee Institute * W. E. B. Du Bois and the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the publication of The Crisis and the Silent Protest (1917)