Jacob Riis - Muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed to the cause of urban reform in America with his book "How the Other Half Lives" , Upton Sinclair - Muckraking journalist and novelist who exposed the unsanitary working conditions in the meat-packing industry with his book "The Jungle", Jane Addams - Social worker who helped immigrants in an "Americanization" campaign and began Hull House in Chicago, Teddy Roosevelt - Progressive President who advocated for natural land conservation, William H. Taft - Progressive President who passed the 17th amendment (direct election of senators), Woodrow Wilson - Progressive President who passed the 19th amendment (voting for women), Muckrakers - Reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers during the Progressive Era who crafted narratives who exposed city leaders and industrialists as corrupt or immoral,

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