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This is one of the major problems Americans faced due to urbanization and industrialization. For instance, 2 million children (ages 5 +) worked in mills, factories, and mine and they couldn’t go to school.
What is child labor?
They are writers who helped spread Progressives’ ideas by uncovering muck or shameful conditions in US business & society.
What is a muckraker?
The Congress recognized this national holiday in 1894 to honor all workers, .
What is Labor Day?
He wrote The Jungle, the novel that exposes the horrible conditions in a meat packing industry.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
This law imposed taxes on people'.s wages (salaries).
What is the 16th Amendment in 1913?
This person was responsible for unionizing coal miners & ending child labor in Pennsylvania in 1890s
Who was Mary "Mother Jones"?
A worker who replaces the striking workers. Usually immigrants.
What is a strikebreaker?
8 hrs. workday, employers are made responsible for injured workers, and the end of child labor.
What were the 3 results of having stronger labor unions that advocated for improved working conditions for employees.
his photograph titled “How the Other Half Lives” shows the terrible conditions of immigrants and workers in overcrowded cities.
Who was Jacob Riis?
Citizens elect their senators who gave people political power
What is the 17th Amendment?
She started this settlement house called Hull House in Chicago, 1889,
Who was Jane Addams?
People trying to find solutions to problems during the late 1900s.
What are the progressives?
He was the president who ended Child Labor & pushed for protect workers injured on the job.
Who was Pres. Woodrow Wilson?
The writer of The History of Standard Oil Company that exposes the danger of trusts
Who was Ida Tarbell?
Wanted better education for young children in poor areas outside the cities. She developed kindergarten in rural areas.
Who was Rebecca Lowe?
He passed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1901 that breaks up big business into smaller companies.
Who was Pres. T. Roosevelt?
This is large and powerful groups of companies.
What is a Trust?
This incident resulted on a major change in the creation of laws to protect the workers. This incident took the lives of 146 young women on March 25, 1911. because ladders couldn’t reach the 8th floor, doors were locked, workers jumped off the window, trapped & died when the fire escape collapsed.
Explain the tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company?
He urged gov’t to establish Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks in 1890
Who was John Muir?
This person organized the Red Cross to help the sick & wounded during war.
Who was Clara Barton?
He exposed the horrible conditions in a meat packing industry through his book, The Jungle.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
A refusal to work until a group’s demands are met.
What is a Strike?
They helped spread the Progressives' ideas, which led to calls for change.
This is the effect that muckrakers have on the problems facing America.
He believed in conservation, and urged Congress to create the U.S.Forest Service
Who was Pres.Roosevelt?
She worked on making states build hospitals for the mentally ill.
Who was Dorothea Dix?