paper ... ...the coal miners didn’t get a change in the way coal was weighed or official recognition of the UMW, the Progressives won this fight because their voices had been heard. Roosevelt’s arbitration in this matter linked public interest and state power, and in the process offered a progressive example for labor relations (McGerr 124). Child Labor. The 1890 census showed that more than one million children, ages ten to fifteen, were working in America. By 1910, that number increased to two million
problems associated with the economic boom. The rich were getting richer. The poor were getting poorer. The gap between the "haves" and the "have nots was widening. Working conditions were not regulated, and at the turn of the century, the United States had a terrible record of workplace safety. During the Progressive Era, many steps were taken in order to correct the mounting problems facing an industrial America. The National Consumers League, for example, formed in 1898 sought to monitor businesses
Jacob Riis and Urban Reform At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States went through a series of major changes known as Industrialization and Urbanization. These developments had a major impact on American life, especially in newly urbanized cities such as New York and Chicago. Americans moved very rapidly from agriculture to machinery, and big businesses boomed, as well as the pockets of a select few. However, along with this change, unprecedented consequences faced thousands of
1901 Tenement House Act In 1894, the lack of cleanliness and sanitation in the tenements was starting to affect the health of tenants. The Tenement House Commission defined the tenements as unsafe and hazardous for health reasons. With no running water and piles of garbage all over the streets, it made it very hard for tenants to keep their selves clean and be able to wash clothes. Soon, many people became ill with diseases like cholera, typhoid, smallpox, and tuberculosis that spread throughout
Life in New York Tenement Houses 1. What are the three distinct classes of homes in the tenement houses? In what ways does each reflect the needs and resources of the renters? There are three distinct classes of houses in the tenement-houses; the cheapest is the attic home. Three rooms is next and is usually for very poor people. The vast majority of respectable working people live in four rooms. Each of these classes reflects the needs and resources of the renters in that the attic home
also expresses how the immigrants of this time period were treated. To be quite frank, they were treated horribly back then and modern immigration has greatly improved, but here’s why. In the 1890’s, Riis himself documented the slums and ghettos of New York City. He took incredible pictures documenting the environment that people had to live in, including the boom of immigrants from European and non-Protestant people primarily.
Riis explores the streets of New York, using “muck-racking” to expose just how “the other half lives,” aside from the upbeat, rich, and flapper-girl filled nights so stereotypical to New York City in the 1800s. During this time, immigrants from all over the world flooded to the new-born city, bright-eyed and expecting new opportunities; little did they know, almost all of them will spend their lives in financial struggle, poverty, and crowded, disease-ridden tenements. Jacob A. Riis will photograph
From past to present, New York has always been known as the icon of the United States. However, in the early 1890’s all the focus and attention was on the middle and upper class, leaving the slums out of the picture. Many people were not aware of the harsh conditions that the unfortunate were making a living out of. Jacob Riis was one of few folks who thought that the poor had more value to them that what most people thought. He decided he would write a magazine article that would eventually get
government is doing to help those people. Social justice is for all the people to feel safe and secure in the community as well as their homes and if they don’t have that then what do we as a whole have? Jacob Riis exposed the evil of poverty in New York City and its destructive effects on society through his writings and photographs. His exposé altered public opinion on this social issue, encouraged the enactment of political reforms, and impacted the way journalists and muckrakers convey the poor’s
life in this revolution of American westward expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the adoption of the last mainland territories as states in the early 20th century. Immense attention is primarily targeted towards the western part of the United States during the 19th century, a period widely known as the Old West, or the Wild West. I wanted to know more about the Wild West, so I decided to interview a farmer by the name of David Smith. I asked
so excited to start a new job and finally be able to put food on the table for my wife and kids here in America! My name is Michael and I am from a little town in Italy called Erice which is located in Sicily. In the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, my family and I left Italy to travel to the beautiful New York City. My family and I were included in the 1890 New York census, which concluded that about 75,000 Italian were born as residents in New York. This all occurred before
were many attempts at making progress, there were many areas where they were unsuccessful. Progressives from 1870 to 1920 were not successful in making the United States a freer and more humane society due to the fact that the wait time for laws to be created and ratified was too long, and laws were not clear, and
reform politics and the government. These goals were solutions to fix the problems brought upon by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in the government. Settlement houses and urban reform were the leader of the social reform. They were reforming society by creating 400 settlement houses which organized kindergartens, nurseries, taught classes in English, cooking, and in personal hygiene. The Settlement workers campaigned for stricter building codes to improve slums, better
Brittany Lowman May 8, 2014 HIST380E Title—subtitle The South Bronx, New York City: another northern portrait of racial divide that naturally occurred in the span of less than a century, or a gradual, but systematic reformation based on the mistaken ideology of white supremacy? A quick glance through contemporary articles on The Bronx borough convey a continuation of less-than-ideal conditions, though recently politicians and city planners have begun to take a renewed interest in revitalizing the
as the previous immigrants had already stitched themselves to the flag producing a resolute hatred for incoming immigrants, one of which was Salvatore Rossi. Having fled Italy in 1897 due to economic hardship, he pursued the “American Dream” in New York, by obtaining an education and landing an uncommon job within the U.S. Government. Italian immigrants in this period of time suffered extreme racial prejudice and experienced numerous obstacles in their process of immigration and assimilating themselves
The book, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex 1790-1920, written by Timothy J. Gilfoyle, explains the sexual transformation New York and its inhabitants experienced. Gilfoyle emphasizes the idea that sex had not been commercialized prior to this time. This new sex industry expanded all throughout New York City. Gilfoyle states that the public saw prostitution in a numerous ways; there were citizens who viewed it as a necessary urban evil and others as a moral
federal level in 1937, which provides for low-cost housing through public financing by means of publicly owned and managed multi-family developments. Several cities began providing publicly funded housing prior to the introduction of the 1937 Housing Act through local programs of their own. Additionally, it was these kinds of local programs that helped mold the model for the federal program. Although there are multiple themes and topics related to public housing this paper will solely focus on 6 themes
The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 were the cause of a lot of new laws, proclamations, etc. Back then nobody looked at “blacks” as citizens, basically you were not considered normal. Even middle class men were not given all their rights. A lot of people do not realize that the world did not get this diverse this easy. All sorts of groups had to pay the price and suffer to get the world where it is today. And really, if you ask anyone what the riot in New York is about, they will just stare at
once she arrived to the hospital. Within a few hours after the crime six black and latino teenagers between the ages of 14-16 were picked up and questioned about their where about during the attack. The next day everyone found out about the horrifying news through the press the city went into an outrage and wanted justice for the victim. The city became divided between the whites and blacks and latinos communities. Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, and Kharey Wise were
The play, 'Fences', presents a slice of life in a black tenement and is set in the late 1950's, through 1965. The main character, Troy Maxson, is a garbage collector. Throughout the play he rebels and frustrates as he struggles for fairness in a society which seems to offer none. His actions and behavior towards his family can be interpreted by a reader as those of a violent and bad father. However, soon one notices that beneath a mask of cruelty and toughness there is an individual who takes