1. Urban Poverty in America Circa 1890
Section 4.2

2. Today’s Agenda Day 8 Current Events Review what we know
Lehman Brothers
Review what we know
4.2 Poverty in America slide show
Riis and Hine Presentation
Homework
Presentation/Paper for day 9 due tomorrow
Read Chapter 4.3 (pgs ) by Thursday

4. Review Describe America before the Industrial Revolution.
How did America demonstrate its greatness around 1900? Examples.
What did it gild?
Define conspicuous consumption.
What is nouveu riches?
What is laissez-faire?
Who was Charles Darwin?
Who was William Graham Sumner?
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Which side of the political spectrum is the government on in 1900?

6. Nature v Nurture
Are we a product of our environment or do we as individuals determine our fate?
Are Social Darwinists right?
If not, how do we change public opinion?

7. How did the American Aristocracy live?

8. The upper middle class lived in charming single homes like these.

9. What about the factory workers, the immigrants, the coal miners, the unemployed?
Where did they live?
How did they live?
How do we know?

10. Overcrowded apartment Known for squalid, unhealthy conditions
What is a tenement?
Overcrowded apartment
Known for squalid, unhealthy conditions

11. Describe the conditions of the slums.
High murder rate
High rate of alcoholism
High infant/child mortality rate
Rats, trash, smell everywhere

13. Define Consciousness Raising
An elevated level of awareness, realization, perception
Define photojournalism.
The use of photography to report on some aspect of society.

14. The Leaden-Eyed Example Let not young souls be smothered out before
They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.
It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull,
Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed.
Not that they starve; but starve so dreamlessly,
Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap,
Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve,
Not that they die,
but that they die like sheep
Vachel Lindsey

15. Who was Jacob Riis? A Muckraker Published “How the Other Half Lives”
Investigative reporter who exposes the ills of society
Published “How the Other Half Lives”
Showed how the poor of NY lived

18. Jacob Riis, Children sleeping in Mulberry Street (1890)
Jacob Riis, Bandits' Roost (1890)

22. Who was Lewis Hine?
Muckraker
Exposed Child Labor
Resulted in 1916 Keating-Owen Act,
Placed limits on employment of children under 14 in factories and shops

28. Hypothesize about the public’s reaction to the to the photos.