Urban Poverty in America Circa 1890

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Urban Poverty in AmericaCirca 1890

• Section 4.2

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Todays AgendaDay 8

• Current Events
• 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. 128-133) by Thursday

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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?

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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?

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How did the American Aristocracy live?
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The upper middle class lived in charming single
homes like these.
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What about the factory workers, the immigrants,
the coal miners, the unemployed? Where did they
live? How did they live? How do we know?
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What is a tenement?

• Overcrowded apartment
• Known for squalid, unhealthy conditions

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Describe the conditions of the slums.

• High murder rate
• High rate of alcoholism
• High infant/child mortality rate
• Rats, trash, smell everywhere

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Define
Consciousness Raising
An elevated level of
awareness, realization,
perception
Define photojournalism.
The use of photography to report on some aspect
of society.
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The Leaden-Eyed
Example
Vachel Lindsey

• 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

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Who was Jacob Riis?

• A Muckraker
• Investigative reporter who exposes the ills of
  society
• Published How the Other Half Lives
• Showed how the poor of NY lived

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Jacob Riis, Children sleepingin Mulberry Street
(1890)
Jacob Riis, Bandits' Roost (1890)
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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

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Hypothesize about the publics reaction to the to
the photos.