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Warm-Up: Please make a list of all the problems you see at Seneca and then describe how you would fix the problems if you could. Child Labor. Young children worked for long hours and low pay in dangerous environments. These children received no education . Child Labor.
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Warm-Up: Please make a list of all the problems you see at Seneca and then describe how you would fix the problems if you could
Child Labor Young children worked for long hours and low pay in dangerous environments. These children received no education.
Child Labor Lewis Hine was a photojournalist and muckraker. He took photos of child laborers, which brought a lot of attention to their cause.
Child labor reforms Fair Labor Standards Act: set a minimum age for child labor
Working Conditions Labor unions were weak. Workers worked for long hours, for low pay, in dangerous environments.
Working conditions Samuel Gompers was the founder and president of the AFL. The AFL strengthened Labor Unions.
Working conditions reforms Fair Labor Standards Act: established the minimum wage and the 40 hours work week.
Government Corruption was a huge problem. Government officials handed out government jobs and contracts in exchange for votes. Voters had little say, or control in their government.
Government Various elected officials brought about reforms that increased democracy: gave voters more control over their government
Government reforms • Direct primary • Secret ballot
Poverty & Immigration It was difficult for immigrants to find jobs. Unemployment was high and jobs paid poorly. There were many poor people living in overcrowded slums and tenements.
Poverty & immigration Jane Addams was a middle class woman and founder of Hull House, the first settlement house. Settlement houses offered social services to immigrants and the poor (education, daycare, job training).
Poverty & immigration Jacob Riis was a muckraker. He wrote a book called How the Other Half Lives which brought attention to the misery of life in the slums.
Poverty & immigration reforms Settlement houses were the beginning of social services for the poor.
Health Concerns There were no laws regulating safe food and drugs. The meatpacking industry was disgusting (rotten meat and other unsanitary conditions). Medicines made false claims and contained unsafe ingredients.
Health concerns Upton Sinclair was a writer. He wrote a novel called The Jungle which exposed the unsanitary conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry.
Health concerns reforms • Meat Inspection Act • Pure Food and Drug Act
Alcohol Many people believed that alcohol contributed to unemployment, poverty, violence, domestic abuse, and even insanity.
alcohol The temperance movement wanted to prevent alcohol from ruining people’s lives. Prohibitionists wanted to make alcohol illegal. Carrie Nation was a leader of the prohibitionists.
Alcohol reforms 18th Amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol. Marked beginning of PROHIBITION!
Women’s Rights Women had few rights… and could not VOTE!
Women’s rights The suffrage movement was the effort to get women the right to vote. Leaders included Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Susan B. Anthony. Susan B. Anthony was the most well known of the suffragettes.
Women’s rights reforms 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.
