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Industrialization and Urbanization

Industrialization and Urbanization. Early 20 th century America The Gilded Age. Learning Goal. Understand living and working conditions in urban industrialized America Urban housing Child labor Workers rights. Tenement Life. Overcrowded Filthy Lack of Heat in Winter No Running Water

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Industrialization and Urbanization

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  1. Industrialization and Urbanization Early 20th century America The Gilded Age

  2. Learning Goal Understand living and working conditions in urban industrialized America • Urban housing • Child labor • Workers rights

  3. Tenement Life • Overcrowded • Filthy • Lack of Heat in Winter • No Running Water • No Flush Toilets • Lack of or Contaminated Ventilation

  4. http://video.kera.org/video/1164090599/ http://video.kera.org/video/1164090599/

  5. Working Conditions

  6. sweatshop

  7. Child Labor

  8. Child Labor

  9. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  10. Ladders did not reach the workers

  11. Flames so hot they melted the iron firescape

  12. Bodies of girls who jumped to their death trying to escape the flames

  13. Rows of Coffins

  14. Quick Write Do we need government regulation of industry?

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