Progressivism Chapter 17
Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Middle Class
John A. Roebling: The Brooklyn Bridge, 1883
Boynton Beach
Progressivism Who? Middle class citizens When? Early 1900s What? Reform movement Business Practices Labor Conditions Living Conditions How? 1. Newspapers 2. education Where? Cities
Ida Tarbell – The History of Standard Oil - exposed.... Muckrakers- investigative reporters Example: Ida Tarbell – The History of Standard Oil - exposed.... 10
Living Conditions “New Immigrants” Overcrowded Tenements Poles, Eastern European Jews, Italians Overcrowded Tenements Poorly constructed apartments Unsanitary Conditions
“New Immigrants” 1877-1890- 6.3 mill. Immigrants Eastern and Southern Europe Ellis Island
Urban Growth: 1870 - 1900
Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”
Tenements Poorly constructed apartments
-How the Other Half Lives. Muckraker: Jacob Riis -How the Other Half Lives. 19
Muckraker: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle; MEAT
Labor Conditions Long hours, low wages Dangerous Conditions 6 days, 10 hrs., $1.50/day Dangerous Conditions Child Labor Open Shops – no labor unions allowed
A Striker Confronts a SCAB!
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 1911 146 workers died NY passed toughest firecodes
Clip from America: The Story of Us
Lewis Hine - Photographer
MUCKRAKER: Lewis Hine – Child Labor
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