Leading into the Progressive Era

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Leading into the Progressive Era
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Transportation needs in the cities

• Trolleys and Subway companies help create suburbs
• New Railroad lines
• Elevators in tall buildings

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Increased people in the cities

• City and state Governments Moves to provide
  residents with services and safe living
  conditions
• Water
• Sanitation
• Police force
• Fire fighters

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• What were some problems in the cities in the late
  1800s?
• Poor water quality
• Poor sanitation
• Lack of police and fire fighters
• All of the above

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Child Labor a problem

• National Child Labor Committee gathers pictures
  and stats. Help push for child labor laws.
• Florence Kelley helped slow Child Labor

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Farm Machines Replace labor

• McCormick Reaper and the steel plow
• More people move north
• Specifically African Americans

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• Which machine led to a migration of people,
  specifically blacks, from country living to the
  city?
• The reaper
• More farms
• Fires in the city
• Poop disposal

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Unskilled jobs available in the cities

• Immigrants move to the cities. Irish especially.
• Mills and factory owners need labor

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More and more immigrants come to America

• Nativism
• Federal government creates Immigration
  restrictions
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Gentlemens Agreement
• literacy tests

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• What is the term used to describe favoring people
  born in this country over those foreign born for
  jobs?
• Nativism
• Eugenics
• Melting pot
• Plurality

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More immigrants coming to the cities

• Americanization movement to assimilate people
  into the American culture
• Schools teach Speak English and know about
  America

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Loss of Southern Farms and jobs for African
Americans

• 200,000 African Americans move north to escape
  prejudice and violence.

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Lack of Jobs and increasing amounts of poor people

• Settlement Houses
• Social Gospel Movement
• Hull House
• Jane Addams and others research problems in the
  communities

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• Which of the following people, organizations, or
  movements helped the urban poor?
• Jane Addams
• Social Gospel movement
• Settlement houses
• All of the above

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Lack of Police

• YMCA opens libraries, classes, pools and courts.
  Salvation Army provides food and instructs
  immigrants about hard work

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Poor Housing

• NYC passes laws for minimum standards for
  plumbing and ventilation in apartments

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Sewer lines and sanitation departments created in
cities.

• When a horse died, its carcass would be left to
  rot until it had disintegrated enough for someone
  to pick up the pieces. Children would play with
  dead horses lying on the streets.

Sewer lines and sanitation departments created in
cities
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Political Corruption in Government

• Direct election of senators (17th amend.)
• Secret ballot elections
• Initiative
• Referendum
• Recall
• Federal, state, and local government

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• Which of the following was/were designed to stop
  corruption in politics?
• Initiative
• Secret ballot
• Recall
• All of the above

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Black inequality

• W.E.B. Dubois helped develop the NAACP.
• Booker T. Washington helped put together the
  Tuskegee Institute for training and educating
  black people

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BUST THE TRUSTS!!!

• President Teddy Roosevelt busted up trusts.
• President William Howard Taft busted up more.

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Middle class grows

• Less work hours, more recreation time
• Amusement parks
• Spectator Sports
• Newspapers magazines

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• Spectator sports, bicycles, amusement parks all
  became a lot more popular because of the growth
  of
• The Lower class
• The Middle class
• No class
• Mr. Sochas class

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Struggle against lynching

• Ida B. Wells wrote about the struggle against
  lynching and battle for Civil Rights

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• This women wrote and lectured about lynching in
  the late 1800s and early 1900s.
• Ida B. Wells
• Ida B. Bored
• Ida One Passing
• Ida Tarbell

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Poor Food Preparation

• Congress passed the Pure food and drug act 1906
• Roosvelt passed the Meat Inspection Act of 1906

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Inefficiency in the workplace

• Henry Ford- Used the assembly line to speed up
  production

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Corrupt Business practices

• Muckrakers wrote about the corrupt side of
  business in magazines and newspapers.
• Ida Tarbell- Standard oil
• Ida B. Wells- Lynching
• Eugene V. Debs- Capitalism
• Upton Sinclair- Treatment of immigrants and meat
  industry The Jungle

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• What book did Muckraker Upton Sinclair write that
  dealt with the horrors of the meatpacking
  industry and immigrants?
• The suburbs
• The Jungle
• The Mountains
• The classroom

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Nationwide Child abuse and Alcohol abuse

• NCLC-National Child Labor Committee helped with
  pictures and investigations
• Florence Kelley-advocate for children and women
  in the workplace
• Cary Nation and WCTU- worked for Prohibition

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Lack of Education

• State laws require attendance
• Help teach immigrants
• Growth of High schools
• Colleges gain more students

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Lack of Womens Rights

• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Start NAWSA-National Women Suffrage Association
• Men feared change in Society
• Womens suffrage the goal (voting)

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• The main goal of women in the early 20th century
  was
• Cool hair
• Suffrage (voting)
• Political office
• To be a teacher