Florence Kelley is described as:

• A. An advocate for improving the lives of women and children
• B. A muckraker who wrote about immigrant life
• C. The founder of Hull House
• D. A city planner

Answer: (A)

Florence Kelley is best described as an advocate for improving the lives of women and children. She focused on labor reform, pushing for laws to limit child labor, shorten the workday for women, and raise wages, and she helped organize efforts like the National Consumers League to use consumers’ purchasing power to press for fair labor practices. This emphasis on protecting vulnerable workers, especially women and children, defines her historical role.

She wasn’t a muckraker—those were investigative journalists who exposed corruption. She didn’t found Hull House—the settlement house was started by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. And she wasn’t a city planner, a field outside her reform-focused work.