First Four Chart Date label your work Four
First Four Chart Date & label your work Four Minutes – 3/1/16 “Field Trip” – Explain something you learned from yesterday’s program at the CMHo. F. Keep this with all of your other First Four work. End
The Gilded Age & The Progressive Era Unit Questions: What is the cost of progress? What do we value?
What do you see? What is the message?
Documents Read the poem, “The New Colossus. ” – What is this about? – What values does it represent? Read the Chinse Exclusion Act – What is this about? – What values does it represent? – How does it compare to the poem?
Group Discussion Questions Why are these questions so hard to answer? What core values of “America” do they challenge? – Freedom? – Equality? – Order?
Why were the 1870 s and 1880 s decades of rapid industrialization? What vocabulary, examples & descriptions could you use with each? Civil War Business Innovations Land Rapid Industrialization Technology Transportation Limited Federal Govt Population
Paper 1 Part B Rubric & Examiner’s Report Evaluate your work – What did you do well? – What could you improve? Exemplar Paper
Vocabulary Quiz #1 You may use your notes. Write statement of significance – What is it & how is it significant to anything we’ve discussed in this unit?
GQ #2 - How great were the economic and social consequences of rapid industrialization in the late nineteenth century? What is the invention? Make a list of the significant changes this brought – economically and/or socially Is there a “price” for this? What is anything is “lost”?
Business vs. Labor
Business vs. Labor Businesses making big $$$ –Technology & inventions –Unfair practices Effects –Economic boom for some –Many people exploited
Working Conditions Low Pay – 1899: men $498/yr, women $267 – Carnegie: $23 Million - Disparity of Wealth Long hours – 12 -14 hrs – 6 -7 days a week Unsafe conditions – 1882: 675 killed per week
Working Conditions Child Labor No benefits Sweatshops - unsafe – Triangle Shirtwaist Co. 1911 – 146 killed
Labor Unions Goals Tactics AFL – Samuel Gompers Industrial Workers of the World – “Big Bill” Haywood – Advocated Socialism – Contrast with “bread & butter unionism”
Reaction to Unions Business Government Violent Strikes – Haymarket Square – 1877 – Public opinion? – Sherman Antitrust Act used against them – Homestead Strike 1892 – Pullman Strike 1894
Effects of Unions Pro-business environment hurt them Still around today Many reforms brought by unions
Quiz 1. What was the average pay for women in 1899 ? 2. How many people were killed per week in factories in 1882? 3. Why did 146 people die at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company? 4. Who was Samuel Gompers? 5. Public opinion turned against unions after what incident in 1877?
Immigration & Urbanization America Moves to the City
Immigration 1870 -1920 millions of immigrants to America – Why? Old vs. New Immigrants (1890) –How were they received?
Ports of Entry Ellis Island – Statue of Liberty 1886 Angel Island
Problems for Immigrants Language, Religion, Culture Ethnic enclaves - Ghettos Rise of Nativism – American Protective Assoc. 1887 – Organized Labor – Old vs. New immigrants Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882
Urbanization Americans & Immigrants attracted to cities – why? What made city life possible? –Inventions & innovations What were the problems?
Problems of Cities Urban population skyrocketing Those with money moved – Suburbs – bedroom communities – Mass transit – streetcars, trolleys – Effect on cities Housing Water, sanitation, crime Calls for limiting immigration
Dumbbell Tenement
Flophouses A Seven-Cent Lodging House, Pell Street
Government Help? City “Machines” –Effects of Machines?
Reform Movement Social Gospel – Walter Rauschenbusch Settlement Houses – Jane Addams – Florence Kelly Americanization Movement
Quiz 1. How were “new” immigrants different from “old” immigrants? 2. Which immigrants came through Ellis Island? 3. What is “the social gospel? ” 4. What was the goal of the Americanization Movement? 5. Who was Jane Addams?
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