Problems from Industrialization
Content Objective: Students will discover the
problems of industrialization and the changes
that happened due to those difficulties.
Language Objective: Students will participate in
the Geography Bee.
Young children worked
for long hours and
low pay in dangerous
environments. These
children received no
education.
Lewis Hine was a
photojournalist and
muckraker. He took
photos of child
laborers, which
brought a lot of
attention to their
cause.
Fair Labor
Standards Act: set
a minimum age for
child labor
Labor unions were
weak. Workers
worked for long hours,
for low pay, in
dangerous
environments.
Samuel Gompers
was the founder
and president of
the AFL. The AFL
strengthened Labor
Unions.
Fair Labor
Standards Act:
established the
minimum wage and
the 40 hours work
week.
Corruption was a
huge problem.
Government officials
handed out
government jobs and
contracts in
exchange for votes.
Voters had little say,
or control in their
government.
Various elected
officials brought
about reforms that
increased democracy:
gave voters more
control over their
government
- Direct primary
- Secret ballot
It was difficult for
immigrants to find
jobs.
Unemployment was
high and jobs paid
poorly. There were
many poor people
living in
overcrowded slums
and tenements.
Jane Addams was a
middle class woman
and founder of Hull
House, the first
settlement house.
Settlement houses
offered social services
to immigrants and
the poor (education,
daycare, job training).
Jacob Riis was a
muckraker. He wrote
a book called How the
Other Half Lives
which brought
attention to the misery
of life in the slums.
Settlement houses
were the beginning
of social services for
the poor.
There were no laws
regulating safe food
and drugs. The
meatpacking
industry was
disgusting (rotten
meat and other
unsanitary
conditions).
Medicines made false
claims and contained
unsafe ingredients.
Upton Sinclair was a
writer. He wrote a
novel called The
Jungle which
exposed the
unsanitary
conditions in
Chicago’s
meatpacking
industry.
 Meat Inspection Act
 Pure Food and Drug
Act
 Content Objective: Students will learn about the
Temperance Movement. They will analyze Primary
Source Documents.
 Language Objective: Students will participate in the
History Bee.
Many people believed
that alcohol
contributed to
unemployment,
poverty, violence,
domestic abuse, and
even insanity.
The temperance
movement wanted to
prevent alcohol from
ruining people’s lives.
Prohibitionists wanted
to make alcohol
illegal. Carrie
Nation was a leader of
the prohibitionists.
18th Amendment
banned the
manufacture, sale,
and transport of
alcohol. Marked
beginning of
PROHIBITION!
 Create flashcards for Jane Addams, Lewis Hine, Carrie
Nation, Samuel Gomper , Jacob Riis,Upton Sinclair
and 18th Amendment
 Quiz on People and Amendments on Friday!
Women had few
rights… and could
not VOTE!
The suffrage movement
was the effort to get
women the right to vote.
Leaders included
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Carrie Chapman Catt,
and Susan B. Anthony.
Susan B. Anthony was the
most well known of the
suffragettes.
19th Amendment
gave women the
right to vote.