Living Conditions
Before 1901, your apartment might be missing this room.
What is an inside bathroom?
The book "The Jungle" highlighted the disgusting and dangerous conditions in these type of factories. (Hope you like rats)
What is the meat packing industry?
Theodore Roosevelt set this organization up to save forests across the country.
What is the National Forest Service?
These two laws made sure our food (especially meat) and medicines were safe!
What are the Meat Inspection Act, and the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Another name for a apartment in a city in the 1900s.
What is a tenement?
The main purpose of this is to organize a large enough group to negotiate for better wages and working conditions for workers.
What are unions?
Many women began to work towards politics using this issue about this substance that affected many families. .
What was alcohol?
This Amendment to the Constitution allowed citizens to vote directly for their Senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
This man took photographs of the slums of New York and wrote a book called "How the Other Half Lives."
Who was Jacob Riis?
Although favored by the radical IWW, the American Federation of Labor felt this tactic should be avoided because it was so risky to the worker.
What are strikes?
Louis Hine was a photographer who secretly photographed this in factories and field throughout the US
What were young children working?
The concept of overtime, the 40 hour work week and the freedom to organize into unions legally was the result of this law.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Due to the crowded and unclean conditions of living quarters in cities, this spread throughout the population of the poor.
What is disease?
This union was originally set up for transportation industries, but now focus on other groups of workers.
Who are the teamsters?
This document was ratified 237 years ago today.
What is the Constitution?
The Fair Labor Standards Act ended child labor nationally with the exception of this industry.
What is farming