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This improved system made city life across Europe and the U.S. much cleaner and healthier.
What is the sewage system?
Many people have a Knight in shining armor but this Night is known best for their work with hospitals.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This immigration station opened in 1892 saw 450,000 people pass through its doors to enter the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
How many occupations and how many groups do we see representing Paris during 1845?
125 well-defined occupations broken into five groups.
This workplace organization gained traction because it fought for the rights of the workers.
What is a labor union?
Death rates decreased.
Robert Koch was a German scientist who discovered the cause of this diseases which used to be known as consumption.
What is Tuberculosis?
The United States saw 12 million immigrants arrive between 1870-1900, the majority of which came from these three countries.
Germany, England, Ireland (also China is acceptable).
How many men do we see counted as workers as opposed to store managers?
260,000 petty workers compared to 26,000 managers and proprietors.
Mutual-aid societies were formed to provided assistance for who?
Sick and/or injured workers.
This caused city appearances to change in the 1800s.
What is Urban Renewal?
The Germ theory.
Almost stopped all immigration from China and forced Chinese immigrants had to keep an ID card proving who they are at all times.
In what field or fields were women most able to find work?
Dressmakers and lingerie workers
What are two of the most influential reasons for passing labor laws?
To outlaw child labor and to prevent women from working in mines.
Clean supplies of water and improved sanitation methods were needed to fight these diseases.
What are Cholera and Tuberculosis?
This French chemist proved germ theory to be valid and correct, among other scientific accomplishments.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
By the early 1900s, this place was the most densely populated place in the world.
What is the Lower East Side, NYC, New York?
Immigrants at Ellis Island could be stopped and detained or deported if these two pieces of information do not lineup during their background/legal check process.
Name and occupation
What is the main tactic for unions to use to get what they want?
Unions use strikes (unless violent)
The Tenement Housing Act brought access to this home necessity to the tenements.
What is an indoor toilet?
Joseph Lister made the discovery what kind of medicine could prevent infection?
What checkpoints would immigrants have to go through in order pass through Ellis Island and enter the United States?
Name and information check, health screening, 40 question interview with a translator, a more intensive health checkup, and money exchange.
What was the event that attracted so many immigrants to the western United States?
The California Goldrush
This groundbreaking labor union win in Great Britain set the stage for other labor unions to come?
British coal miners were awarded an eight-hour work day.