At the turn of the century, what were some of the concerns surrounding social conditions prevalent in American Society?
    Living Conditions
    Working Conditions
    Homelessness
    Children
    Health Conditions

How did the progressives address the social problems of the late 1800s/early 1900s?
http://www.socialworker.com/settleme.htm
http://www.wpt.org/welfare/timeline/cities.cfm
    Jane Addams - Hull House
    Lillian Wald - Henry Street Settlement House
    Florence Kelley - Illinois Factory Act
    Social Gospel - Walter Rauschenbush - Hell’s Kitchen in NYC
    Mother Cabrini
    Washington Gladden
http://courses.history.ohio-state.edu/history563/gladden.htm
http://www.williams.edu/admin-depts/bg/gladden.html
    Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives

Salvation Army Comes to the United States
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/histfol/history.htm

YMCA and YWCA movements begin
http://www.ymca.net/about/cont/history.htm
http://www.ywca.org/html/B5b.asp

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