1. Daily Speak- What is the message of this
political cartoon?

3. 
THE PHONOGRAPH

1877

Inventor: Thomas Edison

Effect: Changed the entertainment
world forever

Have you listened to music lately?

4. 
TELEPHONE

1876

Alexander Graham Bell

Impact: Changed communication FOREVER!

6. 
The electric light, one of the
everyday conveniences that
most affects our lives, was
perfected in 1879 by Thomas
Alva Edison

How would things be different
if you didn’t have the light
bulb?

7. 
SODA

1886

Made when cola syrup and
carbonated water accidently came
together.

And clearly Coke is better than
Pepsi…..

8. 
With the slogan "you press
the button, we do the rest,"
George Eastman put the
first simple camera into
the hands of a world of
consumers in 1888.

How many of you use a
camera on a daily basis?
Weekly?

9. Main Ideas
 The late 1800s and early 1900s saw
all sorts of problems in America
 Political Corruption
 Extreme Wealth / Extreme Poverty
 Inequality for women and
minorities

10. Political Corruption
 Political Machines- used legal and
illegal methods to get people
elected.
 “Father used to say, 'They know how
you're voting. You can't fool them.'
He was a Republican at heart, but
he had to vote Democratic in order
that they didn't find out and make it
difficult for him.”

11. How to Solve Political Corruption
 Corruption+ political machines= bad
 President Arthur starts reform
 Gov't jobs are a reward for qualified
people
•No more getting jobs because you knew
someone.
 10% of job applicants had to pass a
test.

12. Muckrakers
 “Stirredthe pot”
 Wrote and exposed bad things going
on in our country
 Wrote about political corruption,
Standard Oil's unfair business
practices, meatpacking industry, and
much more.

15. Voting Issues
 The voting system was a problem too.
 17th amendment- vote for senators
 Recall- remove politicians
 Initiative- petition for new laws
 Referendum- approve or reject a law
before its passed

16. Issues in the Workplace
 MAJOR ISSUE of the Progressives
 Child Labor- factories, mills, mines
 1900- 1.75 million child workers
 Aged 15 and under

17. DSQ- What is the message of this political cartoon?

24. How Child Labor was addressed
 Muckrakers reported about horrible working
conditions for kids
• 1916 and 1919 congress passed federal child
labor laws
• Didn’t do much parents ignored the laws &
children lied about their age

25. Work Safety Issues
 1900- 35,000 people killed in industrial
accidents!!!!
 2000- 5,931 deaths
 1900- 500,000 suffer injuries of some
sort!!!!
 1911- Huge Disaster hits NYC
• Work safety laws are passed

26. Triangle Fire- 1911
 Workers  Owners
•Bad conditions •Did not want unions
•Low pay •Wanted maximum
•Immigrants production for
extremely low pay
•Locked in
•Didn’t care about
the workers

27. What has changed in the
workplace now, versus what
happened at the Triangle
Factory?

28. Women’s Issues
 Problem in America: half of the
people in the country couldn’t vote.
 After many years women’s suffrage
groups gained the right for women to
vote.
 19th Amendment

32. Racial Issues in America
 Booker T. Washington  W.E.B. Du Bois
 Don’t fight racism  Directly fought
directly improve racism
education  Publicized cases of
 He felt if African- racism
Americans were  Felt African-
educated they would Americans needed
be able to overcome to protest
racism  Helped start NAACP

33. Tenements

37. Child Poverty

40. Poverty
 Huge problem of poverty in America
 Progressives wanted to help urban
poor
 Set up housing and education centers
for poor

41. Summary
 Take out your notebooks and answer this
journal question.
 Think about everything we went over this
week:
1. How would you summarize the early 1900s in
America?
2. Are things getting better or worse?
3. How has this affected today?

42. ISSUES
 Meatpacking 
 Child Labor 
 Triangle Fire 
 Tenements 
 Child Poverty 
 Women’s Suffrage 