1. 1/12 Learning Target
How did the book the Jungle influence history?

2. And So…….

3. And So……. They moved them to Reservations
White Americans wanted the land
that American Indians occupied
And So…….
They moved
them to
Reservations

4. And So……. White Americans wanted American Indians to assimilate
They changed the
appearance of many
American Indians
The Dawes Act
divided reservation
land and sold off
excess to whites
They sent children to boarding schools
far away from their homes
And So…….
White Americans wanted
American Indians
to assimilate

5. And So…. With land ‘cleared’ cowboys
and ranchers are able to move cattle to feed growing northern cities
And So….
Chicago becomes
the hub for the
cattle industry

6. And So…. Iron is available to America Economic boom in northern MN
In 1887 a massive iron
deposit 100 miles long
& 3 miles wide
was discovered
Mesabi Range,
Minnesota 
Iron is available
to America
Economic boom
in northern MN

7. By 1880 the U.S. produced 90% of the world’s steel
The Bessemer Process efficiently creates steel
And So…….
New construction develops & cities expand (upward)
By 1880 the U.S. produced 90% of the world’s steel
Home
Insurance
Building
Chicago
The railroad industry booms
Brooklyn Bridge

8. Thomas Edison perfected the incandescent light bulb
and later invented an entire system for producing
and distributing electrical power (aided by George Westinghouse)
And So…….
Multiple appliances and technologies are now mechanized
– run by machines rather by manual power
And So….
Workers are required not for specialized skill but boring repetitive tasks at machines
And So….
Employees are not valued workers
but rather expendable parts
“workers become the
interchangeable part”

9. Electricity means that factories no longer need to be
next to water for source of power
And
So...
Many factories move to the South
-cheap labor
-helps with rebuilding
Electricity means that factories are no longer
limited by daylight hours
And
So…
Factories can stay open longer
-worker hours increase

10. And So……. Factory jobs were demanding, low-paying, boring,
repetitious, and often dangerous
6-7 days a week
$.27 a day for 14 hours for children
$498 average yearly pay for men
And So…….
Workers began to unionize
Knights of Labor
-both skilled & unskilled laborers
American Federation of Labor
-mostly skilled laborers
-led by Samuel Gompers

11. They used new (sketchy?)
And
SO….
The capital needed for large
factories was massive
Business owners had to maximize profits to be successful
And
So…
They had to produce more & pay workers less
They sought investors & new markets
They used new (sketchy?)
business practices
-trusts
-holding companies
-monopolies
-horizontal integration
-vertical integration

12. And So… Thousands of unskilled workers are needed
to work in factories across the United States
And
So…
Millions of immigrants enter the U.S.
through Ellis Island in NY harbor searching
for streets filled with gold

13. Millions of Immigrants come to America looking for work
Disease
Tenements
AND SO…..
Crime
Filth
Overcrowding

15. New Inventions and Innovations
Massive
Industrialization
3rd Wave of
Immigration
Poor
Working
Conditions
Increase
In Urban
Population
Socialist
Party
Forms
1901
Unions
Gain
Numbers
and Power
Overcrowding,
Crime
Rates
Increase
Rise of
Political
Machines

16. The Jungle Expose` of the meatpacking industry in Chicago
Sinclair spent 7 weeks living in “Packingtown”
-meticulously researched!
Considered progressive journalism but not great literature
Deals with issues of big business, immigration, political
corruption, and impacts of capitalism
Jurgis & Ona Rudkus from Lithuania

17. Jungle Excerpt Read through the excerpt of the Jungle with a partner.
Write down
3 things/details that are shocking
2 questions that you have
1 sentence summary of the purpose of the story

18. Upton
Sinclair
What connections do we already see in the novel?

19. Industrialization *New Innovations & Technologies
*The Rise of Big Business
*Influence of Labor Unions
*Increased Immigration &
Urban Population
*Emergence of Political Machines

20. Momentum Monday???!!