End Four Minutes First Four Chart Date & label your work 3/1/16 “Field Trip” Explain something you learned from yesterday’s program at the CMHoF. Keep this with all of your other First Four work. To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling. When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds. End
The Gilded Age & The Progressive Era Unit Questions: What is the cost of progress? What do we value?
What do you see? What is the message?
Documents Read the poem, “The New Colossus.” What is this about? What values does it represent? Read the Chinse Exclusion Act How does it compare to the poem?
Group Discussion Questions Why are these questions so hard to answer? What core values of “America” do they challenge? Freedom? Equality? Order?
Why were the 1870s and 1880s decades of rapid industrialization? Civil War Land Transportation Population Limited Federal Govt Technology Business Innovations What vocabulary, examples & descriptions could you use with each?
Paper 1 Part B Rubric & Examiner’s Report Evaluate your work What did you do well? What could you improve? Exemplar Paper
Vocabulary Quiz #1 You may use your notes. Write statement of significance What is it & how is it significant to anything we’ve discussed in this unit?
GQ #2 - How great were the economic and social consequences of rapid industrialization in the late nineteenth century? What is the invention? Make a list of the significant changes this brought – economically and/or socially Is there a “price” for this? What is anything is “lost”?
Business vs. Labor
Business vs. Labor Businesses making big $$$ Technology & inventions Unfair practices Effects Economic boom for some Many people exploited
Working Conditions Low Pay Long hours Unsafe conditions 1899: men $498/yr, women $267 Carnegie: $23 Million - Disparity of Wealth Long hours 12-14 hrs – 6-7 days a week Unsafe conditions 1882: 675 killed per week
Working Conditions Child Labor No benefits Sweatshops - unsafe Triangle Shirtwaist Co. 1911 146 killed
Labor Unions Goals Tactics AFL – Samuel Gompers Industrial Workers of the World “Big Bill” Haywood Advocated Socialism Contrast with “bread & butter unionism”
Reaction to Unions Business Government Violent Strikes Haymarket Square – 1877 Public opinion? Sherman Antitrust Act used against them Homestead Strike 1892 Pullman Strike 1894
Effects of Unions Pro-business environment hurt them Still around today Many reforms brought by unions
Quiz 1.What was the average pay for women in 1899 ? 2. How many people were killed per week in factories in 1882? 3. Why did 146 people die at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company? 4. Who was Samuel Gompers? 5. Public opinion turned against unions after what incident in 1877?
Immigration & Urbanization America Moves to the City
1870-1920 millions of immigrants to America – Why? Immigration 1870-1920 millions of immigrants to America – Why? Old vs. New Immigrants (1890) How were they received?
Ports of Entry Ellis Island Statue of Liberty 1886 Angel Island
Problems for Immigrants Language, Religion, Culture Ethnic enclaves - Ghettos Rise of Nativism American Protective Assoc. 1887 Organized Labor Old vs. New immigrants Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882
What made city life possible? What were the problems? Urbanization Americans & Immigrants attracted to cities – why? What made city life possible? Inventions & innovations What were the problems?
Problems of Cities Urban population skyrocketing Those with money moved Suburbs – bedroom communities Mass transit – streetcars, trolleys Effect on cities Housing Water, sanitation, crime Calls for limiting immigration
Dumbbell Tenement
Flophouses A Seven-Cent Lodging House, Pell Street
Government Help? City “Machines” Effects of Machines?
Reform Movement Social Gospel Settlement Houses Walter Rauschenbusch Settlement Houses Jane Addams Florence Kelly Americanization Movement
Quiz 1. How were “new” immigrants different from “old” immigrants? 2. Which immigrants came through Ellis Island? 3. What is “the social gospel?” 4. What was the goal of the Americanization Movement? 5. Who was Jane Addams?