Content Objective: Students will discover the problems of industrialization and the changes - PowerPoint Presentation

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Content Objective: Students will discover the problems of industrialization and the changes that happened due to those difficulties. Language Objective: Students will participate in the Geography Bee.

Problems from Industrialization

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Child Labor Young children worked for long hours and

low pay

in dangerous environments. These children received

no education.

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Child Labor Lewis Hine was a photojournalist

and

muckraker

. He took photos of child laborers, which brought a lot of attention to their cause.

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Child labor reforms

Fair Labor Standards Act:

set a minimum age for child labor

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Working Conditions

Labor unions were

weak. Workers worked for long hours, for low pay, in dangerous environments.

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Working conditions Samuel Gompers was the

founder

and

president of the AFL. The AFL strengthened Labor Unions.

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Working conditions reforms

Fair Labor Standards Act

: established the minimum wage and the 40 hours work week.

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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.

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Government Various elected officials brought about reforms that increased

democracy

: gave voters more control over their government

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Government reforms

Direct primary

Secret ballot

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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

.

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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).

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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.

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Poverty & immigration reforms

Settlement houses

were the beginning of social services for the poor.

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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.

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Health concerns Upton Sinclair was a

writer

. He wrote a novel called

The Jungle which exposed the unsanitary conditions in Chicago’s

meatpacking industry.

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Health concerns reforms

Meat Inspection Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

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Content Objective: Students will learn about the Temperance Movement. They will analyze Primary Source Documents.Language Objective: Students will participate in the History Bee. Objectives

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Alcohol

Many people believed that alcohol contributed to

unemployment, poverty, violence, domestic abuse, and even

insanity

.

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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.

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Alcohol reforms

18

th

Amendment

banned the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol. Marked beginning of

PROHIBITION!

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Create flashcards for Jane Addams, Lewis Hine, Carrie Nation, Samuel Gomper , Jacob Riis,Upton Sinclair and 18th Amendment

Quiz on People and Amendments

on Friday!

Homework

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Women’s Rights Women had

few rights

… and could not

VOTE!

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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

.

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Women’s rights reforms

19

th

Amendment

gave women the right to vote.

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