1. Progressivism
Chapter 17

2. Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Middle Class

4. John A. Roebling: The Brooklyn Bridge, 1883

6. Boynton Beach

9. Progressivism Who? Middle class citizens When? Early 1900s
What? Reform movement
Business Practices
Labor Conditions
Living Conditions
How?
1. Newspapers
2. education
Where? Cities

10. Ida Tarbell – The History of Standard Oil - exposed....
Muckrakers- investigative reporters
Example:
Ida Tarbell – The History of Standard Oil
- exposed.... 10

12. Living Conditions “New Immigrants” Overcrowded Tenements
Poles, Eastern European Jews, Italians
Overcrowded Tenements
Poorly constructed apartments
Unsanitary Conditions

13. “New Immigrants” 1877-1890- 6.3 mill. Immigrants
Eastern and Southern Europe
Ellis Island

16. Urban Growth:

17. Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”

18. Tenements
Poorly constructed apartments

19. -How the Other Half Lives.
Muckraker: Jacob Riis
-How the Other Half Lives. 19

25. Muckraker: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle; MEAT

26. 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

27. A Striker Confronts a SCAB!

28. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
1911
146 workers died
NY passed toughest firecodes

31. Clip from America: The Story of Us

32. Lewis Hine - Photographer

33. MUCKRAKER: Lewis Hine – Child Labor

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