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Impact of Americanization Movement and Industrialization Changes

Examining the effects of How The Other Half Lives publication and Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on American society during industrialization in the Gilded Age. Explore railroad importance, political machines, and urbanization challenges.

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Impact of Americanization Movement and Industrialization Changes

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  1. Industrialization and Lecture 1 Gilded Age Politics

  2. Standard 11.2.3 • Trace the effect of the Americanization movement. • Essential Question: Explain the changes that were brought about by the publishing of How The Other Half Lives, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

  3. History can be divided into four broad categories. • Not all events are easily placed in any one category. • Political -- Governments, wars, treaties, laws, court cases, elections, and political parties • Economic -- Money, taxes, manufacture, and trade • Geographic -- Topography, climate, agriculture, and resources • Social -- Religion, entertainment, immigration, and social movements

  4. The Effects of the Civil War on Industrialization • Expansion of Northern Industrialization and Markets • Factories = Mass Production = Low Prices • North = production and manufacturing of goods. • West and South = Raw Materials • wheat, corn, livestock, iron, timber, gold, silver, coal • Failure of Reconstruction • African Americans in the South had rights on paper • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

  5. Importance of the Railroad • Railroads = Fast, Cheap, Efficient • Land Grants • Railroad Materials helped built industry • 1865 and 1900 the US built over 150,000 miles of railroad • mining, lumber, steel mills, chemical plants • Union Pacific and Central Pacific, 1869 • Irish and Chinese Labor • Time Zones • Railroads created time zones for efficiency CSS 11.2.6

  6. The Boss • Political Machines • “bosses” controlled elections by exchanging votes for government jobs and contracts • Most Famous • Tammany Hall in New York City • William “Boss” Tweed • 1860s and 1870s

  7. Graft • Graft • someone profits personally from the public budget • this is very illegal • they sell property to the government or the government picks their company to build public buildings • Tweed charged the city $13 million to build a $3 million courthouse

  8. “Nast”y Politics • Thomas Nast • drew pictures of Tweed in Harper’s Weekly • ultimately helped put him in jail • Nast created the symbol of the Republican party • the elephant

  9. Pendleton Act, 1883 • the “spoils system” allowed the president to hand out jobs to his friends • the new law made government employees take the civil service exam to qualify

  10. Urbanization • the rapid growth of cities created new problems • housing, transportation, water, and sanitation, firefighting and crime • from 1820 to 1914 immigration exploded

  11. typists seamstresses

  12. Tenement Housing • tenements were multi-story slums with little ventilation • Jacob Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives • new laws set standards for buildings in 1901

  13. How the Other Half Lives

  14. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911 • a fire on the 8th floor prevented workers on the 9th floor from getting out of the building • 146 garment workers died • public outrage led to new laws that protected workers’ rights

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