1. Immigration, Progressive Reform, Suffrage
United States History - Mrs. O'Shea and Mrs. Curran
4/21/2017
Immigration, Progressive Reform, Suffrage

2. European Immigrants Came through Ellis Island
– 17 million immigrants were processed

3. Physical and Mental Test

4. Asian Immigrants
Angel Island
– 50,000 Chinese Immigrants

5. Mexican and West Indies (Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico) Immigrants
El Paso, Texas
– 260,000 immigrants

6. African Immigrants
300 years of slave trade million to 20 million Africans were transported to the Americas.
400,000 to United States

7. What is your story? Research Paper Interview family members.
Research
Interview family members.
Dig through family documents, pictures, etc.
Research online.
Paper
Summarize findings. MUST BE TYPED!!!!!
Describe your family. Where are they from? How far back were you able to go? Any unique stories? Anything surprising about your research?

9. Tenement Slum Living

10. Tenement Life Run down buildings
Overcrowded- An entire family living in one room; multiple families living on the same floor
Little light or ventilation
Horrible sanitation: No garbage pick-up; no plumbing, smelly
Conditions caused disease that was easily spread

11. Dumbbell Tenement

13. Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
1911- New York City, 10-story building
Doors locked from the outside
One fire escape- rusted and collapsed
Workers jumped to their deaths or perished in the smoke and flames
146 workers died

14. Muckrakers
Derogatory name: “earn their livelihood by telling scandalous falsehoods about honest men”
Many brought attention to tragic truth:
Living conditions
Working conditions
Business Practices
Child Labor
Conditions of food processing factories
Corruption in government
Prison Conditions

15. Municipal (City) Reform
Cities take over Utilities
Water, gas, electricity
Regulate/eliminate monopolies
Many cities began providing welfare services
work relief programs, free kindergartens, housing for homeless, etc.

16. State Reform Reforms in the Workplace Curbed hazards
Accident insurance and compensation systems
Limited working hours
2/3 of states eliminated child labor
Minimum wages were established

17. Chicago Meat Inspectors 1906
Federal Reform
Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act (Roosevelt influence by the Jungle)
Constitutional Amendments
16th = Federal income taxes
17th = Direct election of senators
18th = Abolition of alcohol
Chicago Meat Inspectors 1906

18. Beginnings of the Suffrage Movement
First formally demanded right to vote at Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Not allowed to vote
Husbands had legal power over their wives
Working women paid only a fraction of what men earned
Women had no means to gain an education since no college would accept women students
Women were robbed of their self-confidence and self-respect, and were made totally dependent on men

19. Anti-Suffrage Movement

21. National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Leaders:
Goals:
Methods Used:
Congressional Union (CU)
Leaders:
Goals:
Methods Used:

23. Nineteenth Amendment
1920
Extended the right to vote to women