1/12 Learning Target How did the book the Jungle influence history?

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And So……. They moved them to Reservations White Americans wanted the land that American Indians occupied And So……. They moved them to Reservations

And So……. White Americans wanted American Indians to assimilate They changed the appearance of many American Indians The Dawes Act divided reservation land and sold off excess to whites They sent children to boarding schools far away from their homes And So……. White Americans wanted American Indians to assimilate

And So…. With land ‘cleared’ cowboys and ranchers are able to move cattle to feed growing northern cities And So…. Chicago becomes the hub for the cattle industry

And So…. Iron is available to America Economic boom in northern MN In 1887 a massive iron deposit 100 miles long & 3 miles wide was discovered Mesabi Range, Minnesota  Iron is available to America Economic boom in northern MN

By 1880 the U.S. produced 90% of the world’s steel The Bessemer Process efficiently creates steel And So……. New construction develops & cities expand (upward) By 1880 the U.S. produced 90% of the world’s steel Home Insurance Building Chicago The railroad industry booms Brooklyn Bridge

Thomas Edison perfected the incandescent light bulb and later invented an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power (aided by George Westinghouse) And So……. Multiple appliances and technologies are now mechanized – run by machines rather by manual power And So…. Workers are required not for specialized skill but boring repetitive tasks at machines And So…. Employees are not valued workers but rather expendable parts “workers become the interchangeable part”

Electricity means that factories no longer need to be next to water for source of power And So... Many factories move to the South -cheap labor -helps with rebuilding Electricity means that factories are no longer limited by daylight hours And So… Factories can stay open longer -worker hours increase

And So……. Factory jobs were demanding, low-paying, boring, repetitious, and often dangerous 6-7 days a week $.27 a day for 14 hours for children $498 average yearly pay for men And So……. Workers began to unionize Knights of Labor -both skilled & unskilled laborers American Federation of Labor -mostly skilled laborers -led by Samuel Gompers

They used new (sketchy?) And SO…. The capital needed for large factories was massive Business owners had to maximize profits to be successful And So… They had to produce more & pay workers less They sought investors & new markets They used new (sketchy?) business practices -trusts -holding companies -monopolies -horizontal integration -vertical integration

And So… Thousands of unskilled workers are needed to work in factories across the United States And So… Millions of immigrants enter the U.S. through Ellis Island in NY harbor searching for streets filled with gold

Millions of Immigrants come to America looking for work Disease Tenements AND SO….. Crime Filth Overcrowding

New Inventions and Innovations Massive Industrialization 3rd Wave of Immigration Poor Working Conditions Increase In Urban Population Socialist Party Forms 1901 Unions Gain Numbers and Power Overcrowding, Crime Rates Increase Rise of Political Machines

The Jungle Expose` of the meatpacking industry in Chicago Sinclair spent 7 weeks living in “Packingtown” -meticulously researched! Considered progressive journalism but not great literature Deals with issues of big business, immigration, political corruption, and impacts of capitalism Jurgis & Ona Rudkus from Lithuania

Jungle Excerpt Read through the excerpt of the Jungle with a partner. Write down 3 things/details that are shocking 2 questions that you have 1 sentence summary of the purpose of the story

Upton Sinclair What connections do we already see in the novel?

Industrialization *New Innovations & Technologies *The Rise of Big Business *Influence of Labor Unions *Increased Immigration & Urban Population *Emergence of Political Machines

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