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Social Gospel
Willian Thomas Stead: If Christ came to Chicago, a book showing that people weren't using their wealth to help other people, but they were working to help themselves.

Churches often help people with problems.

Muckrakers: A term used to describe people who dig for social "muck" in the current society. Jane Addams rented out the Hull House to run a sort of daycare for the women and children of the people who are less fortunate, gave them clothes, ran a nursery, had a library for people to learn in.
 * "The Jungle" Upton Sinclair
 * "Sister Carrie" Theodore Driser
 * McClure's "The Shame of Cities" Lincoln Steffans
 * "How the Other Half Lives" Jacob Riis