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2. WORKING CONDITIONS AN IMMIGRANT TALE OF
TRAGEDY
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1)  DO THE DQ FOR THE DAY. WRITE THE DAILY
QUOTE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION FOR THE DAY. 2) YOU
ARE TO COPY THE NOTES (I GET MY COPY BACK). 3)
 DO THE BOSS TWEED QUESTIONS AND THE TRIANGLE
FIRE QUESTIONS
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WE DIDNT HAVE A CHANCE -ROSE GLANTZ
Daily Comment Card
1882
CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
You need to look over your gilded age notes
before your quiz!
-Only legislation passed to limit immigration
of any one group of people -Passed in response
to the Chinese who settled in California
after building the railroads
SONG FOR THE DAY BURNING LOVE (ELVIS!!)
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WE DIDNT HAVE A CHANCE -ROSE GLANTZ
Daily Comment Card
MAY 4, 1886
HAYMARKET SQUARE RIOT
-Large rally in Haymarket Square in Chicago
shortly after strike began at McCormick
Harvesting Machine Co. -Police attempted to
disperse the crowd and bomb exploded -Eleven
killed, over 100 wounded -8 Anarchists on trial,
4 executed -used to discredit Knights of Labor
SONG FOR THE DAY RING OF FIRE
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WE DIDNT HAVE A CHANCE -ROSE GLANTZ
Daily Comment Card
1882
MAY 4, 1886
CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
HAYMARKET SQUARE RIOT
You need to look over your gilded age notes
before your quiz!
-Only legislation passed to limit immigration
of any one group of people -Passed in response
to the Chinese who settled in California
after building the railroads
-Large rally in Haymarket Square in Chicago
shortly after strike began at McCormick
Harvesting Machine Co. -Police attempted to
disperse the crowd and bomb exploded -Eleven
killed, over 100 wounded -8 Anarchists on trial,
4 executed -used to discredit Knights of Labor
SONG FOR THE DAY BURNING LOVE (ELVIS!!)
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ANALYZE THIS CARTOON WHAT DO YOU SEE? WHAT DO
YOU THINK THIS PICTURE REPRESENTS? WHAT YEAR
WOULD YOU PUT ON THIS PICTURE?
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Working Conditions
AN IMMIGRANT TALE OF TRAGEDY
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IMMIGRATION In the last half of the 19th century,
the U.S. population increased from 23.2 million
in 1850 to 76.2 million in 1900. 16.2 million new
immigrants arrived during this time
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Why were they coming? -poverty (displaced
farmers) -overcrowding and joblessness in Europe
(population boom) -religious persecution
(Russian Jews) -Steamships provided inexpensive
one way passage
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1880
After 1880 there was a shift in the origin of the
immigration. Before 1880 northern western
Europe After 1880southern and eastern Europe
England, Germany, Scandinavia (Mostly Protestant,
some Irish German Catholics)
Italy, Greece, Croatia, Poland, Russia (poor
illiterate-largely Roman Catholic, Greek
Orthodox, Russian Orthodox or Jewish)
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NATIVISM Those born in America wanted to
restrict immigration as new immigrants flooded
the country. They believed that people of other
races, religions and nationalities were inferior.
They feared the new immigrants would never be
fully absorbed into America. They felt that they
would lower wages and take jobs from other
Americans.
AMERICANIZATION The process of making
immigrants act American (learning to dress,
speak, and act like other Americans). It was an
assimilation process of blending others into
America.
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MULLER V. OREGONTHE SUPREME COURT RULED THAT
WOMENS WORK HOURS MUST BE REGULATED TO PRESERVE
HEALTH(1908)
AMONG THE FEW LAWS PERTAINING TO WORK REGULATION
WAS
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The fire at the Triangle Waistshirt Company in
New York City was one of the worst disasters
since the beginning of the Industrial
Revolution. It highlights the inhumane working
conditions workers could be subjected to
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Because most garment workers were young immigrant
women intimidated by their foreign surroundings,
they were generally unorganized before 1911.
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on the top floors of the Asch Building in the
Triangle Waistshirt Company. Within minutes chaos
ruled. By the time the fire was over, 146 of the
500 employees were dead. Survivors were left to
deal with the horror of co-workers burning to
death or leaping to their death from the ninth
floor.
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Some of the workers were as young as 15. Many
were recent Italian and European Jewish
immigrants who had come here with their families
seeking a better life.
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The Triangle Factory was primarily a non-union
shop, although some of its workers had joined the
International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
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The Triangle Fire proved that fire inspections
and precautions were inadequate. Some workers
told of their efforts to open the ninth floor
doors to the stairs only to find them locked
(some employers did this deliberately). Some who
waited at the windows found that the
firefighters ladders were several stories too
short, and that the water from the hoses could
not reach the top floors.
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The only way out was through an opening on one
side of the building where employers usually
inspected all purses to prevent stealing. Those
who survived testified that they were unable to
open any doors on the other side of the building.
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In the weeks that followed, the dead were
identified, their belongings sorted out, and the
city mournedSoon cries for justice and
protection of workers were heard
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Eight months after the fire, a jury acquitted
factory owners Max Blanck and Isaac Harris of any
wrong doing. Twenty-three civil suits were
brought against them. On March 11, 1913 (2 years
later), They settled for what amounted to 75 per
lost life.
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LIZZIE ADLER, ANNA ALTMAN, ANNA ARDITO, ROSIE
BASSINO, VINCENZA BELLOTA, BINCENZA BENETI, ESSIE
BERNSTEIN, JACOB BERNSTEIN, MORRIS BERNSTEIN,
GUSSIE BIERMAN, ABRAHAM BINEVITZ, ROSIE BRENMAN,
SARAH BENMAN, IDA BRODSKY, SARAH BODSKY, IDA
BROOKS, LAURA BRUNETTE, FRANCES CAPUTTO,
JOSEPHINE CARLISI, ALBINA CARUSO, JOSIE CASTELLO,
ROSE CIRRITO, ANNA COHEN, ANTONIA COLLETTI, DORA
DOCHMAN, KALMAN DOWNIC, CELIA EISENBERG, REBECCA
FEIBISCH, YETTA RICHTENHULTZ, DAISY LOPEZ FITZE,
TINA FRANK, ROSIE FREEDMAN, MOLLY GERSTEIN, CELIA
GETTLIN, ESHTER GODLSTEIN, LENA GOLDSTEIN, MARY
GOLDSTEIN, YETTA GOLDSTEIN, IRENE GRAMEATASSION,
BERTHA GREB, KINAH GREENBERG, RACHEL GROSSMAN,
ROSSIE GROSSO, ESTHER HARRIS, MARY HERMAN, ESTHER
HSOCHFIELD, FANNIE HOLLANDER, PAULINE HOROWITZ,
IDA JAKOFSKY, TESSIE KAPLAN, BECKY KAPPELMAN, IDA
KENOWITZ, BEKCY KESSLER, JACOB KLINE, BERTHA
KUHLER, TILLER KUPFERSMITH, SARAH KUPLA, BENNY
KURITZ, ANNIE LABBATO, FRANNIE LANSNER, MARY
LAVENTHAL, JENNIE LEDERMAN, NATTIE LEFKOWITZ, MAX
LEHRER, SAM LEHRER, KATE LEONE, ROSIE LERMARCK,
JENNIE LEVIN, PAULINE LEVINE, CATHERINE MALTESE,
LUCY MALTESE, ROSARIA MALTESE, MARIA MANARA,
BERTHA MANDERS, ROSE MANOFSKY, MECHI MARCIANO,
YETTA MEYERS, BETTTINA MIALE, FRANCES MIALE,
MGAETANA MIDOLO, BECCY NEBRERER, ANNIE NICHOLAS,
NICOLINA NICOLOSCI, NANIE NOVOBRITSKY, SADIE
NUSSBAUM, JULIA OBERSTEIN, ROSE ORINGER, BECY
OSTROWSKY, CARRIE OZZO, ANNIE PACK, PROVIDENZA
PANNO, ANTONIETTA PASQUALICCA, IDA PEARL, JENNIE
PILDESCU, VINCENZA PINELLO, JENNIE POLINY, MILLIE
PARATO, BECKY REIVERS, EMMA ROOTSTEIN, ISRAEL
ROSEN, JULIA ROSEN, LOUIS ROSEN, YETTA ROSENBAUM,
JENNIE ROSENBERG, GUSSIE ROSENFELD, NETTIE
ROSENTHAL, TEDDY ROTHNER, SARAH SABOSWITZ, SOHPIE
SALEMI, SARA SARACINO, TESSIE SARACINO, GUSSIE
SCHIFFMAN, ROSE SCHMIDT, ETHEL SCHNEIDER, VIOLET
SCHOCHEP, MARGARET SCHWARTZ, JACOB SELZER, ANNIE
SEMMILIO, ROSIE SHAPIRO, BEN SKLAVER, ROSIE
SORKIN, GUSSIE SPUNT, ANNIE STARR, JENNIE
STELLINO, JENNIE STERN, JENNIE STIGLITZ, SAMUEL
TAVICK, CLOTILDE TERDANOVA, ISABELLA TORTORELLA,
MARY ULLO, MEYER UTAL, FREDA VELAKOWSKY, BESSIE
VIVIANIO, ROSE WEINER, CLEIA WEINTRAUB, DORA
WELFOWITZ, JOSEPH WILSON, TESSIE WISNER, SONIA
WISOTSKY, BERTHA WONDROSS, UNIDENTIFIED 1,
UNIDENTIFIED 2, UNIDENTIFIED 3 UNIDENTIFIED 4,
UNIDENTIFIED 5, UNIDENTIFIED 6.
PUBLIC OUTCRY STRENGTHENED UNIONS THE PUSH FOR
THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS
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Francis Perkins, who assisted in the factory
investigation as executive secretary of the New
York Committee on Safety, would become Secretary
of Labor under Franklin Roosevelt.