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Progressivism and the Age of Reform

Progressivism and the Age of Reform. Progressivism and the Age of Reform. Tenement Reform Child Labor Trusts Political Reform • Anti-Lynching Crusade The Election of 1912. Tenement Reform. Tenements Jacob Riis: Danish immigrant, journalist One of the first to use flash photography

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Progressivism and the Age of Reform

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  1. Progressivism and the Age of Reform

  2. Progressivism and the Age of Reform • Tenement Reform • Child Labor • Trusts • Political Reform • Anti-Lynching Crusade • The Election of 1912

  3. Tenement Reform • Tenements • Jacob Riis: Danish immigrant, journalist • One of the first to use flash photography • How the Other Half Lives (1890) • Reform

  4. Tenement Reform

  5. This is a photo Jacob Riis took of immigrants in a New York City tenement in 1890. • How many people can you make out in this picture? • How big does the room appear to be?

  6. Do you see any windows in the room? • Where does the lighting for the photo appear to be coming from?

  7. Describe the expressions on the people’s faces. • What does this tell you about the moment at which the picture was taken?

  8. What objects do you see in the apartment? • What type of furniture can you see? • How would you describe the overall condition of the apartment?

  9. Imagine that you are a middle-class New Yorker who saw this photo at one of Riis’s lectures. • How do you think you would have reacted to it? • Would it have made you more or less likely to support tenement reform? Why?

  10. Child Labor • Traditional children’s work • Effect of the Industrial Revolution • National Child Labor Committee • Lewis Hine • Reform

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