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Progressivism Chapter 17

Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Middle Class

John A. Roebling: The Brooklyn Bridge, 1883

Boynton Beach

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

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

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

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

Urban Growth: 1870 - 1900

Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”

Tenements Poorly constructed apartments

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

Muckraker: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle; MEAT

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

A Striker Confronts a SCAB!

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 1911 146 workers died NY passed toughest firecodes

Clip from America: The Story of Us

Lewis Hine - Photographer

MUCKRAKER: Lewis Hine – Child Labor

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