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How the Other Half Lives
1. Essential Question
What were some of the living and working
conditions during the late 1800s, and what
did people do to try to improve those
circumstances?
10. 1) What is “progress”?
2) What is the best way to make progress?
3) What should the government do to improve society?
4) Is there a need for more government involvement?
5) Is there a need for more private competition?
6) What should business do to improve society?
7) What should “common” people do to improve society?
8) Do Americans need the government to protect them
from corporate abuse?
15. Carnegie Libraries
Carnegie had two main reasons for donating
money to the founding of libraries
First, he believed that libraries added to the meritocratic
nature of America. Anyone with the right inclination and
desire could educate himself.
Second, Carnegie believed that immigrants like himself
needed to acquire cultural knowledge of America; which the
library allowed immigrants to do.
39. 1) What is “progress”?
2) What is the best way to make progress?
3) What should the government do to improve society?
4) Is there a need for more government involvement?
5) Is there a need for more private competition?
6) What should business do to improve society?
7) What should “common” people do to improve society?
8) Do Americans need the government to protect them
from corporate abuse?
40. Andrew Carnegie – was a strict Social
Darwinist. He believed that accumulation of
wealth by a few was inevitable in any
capitalistic society. Further, this concentration
of wealth in the hands of a few was necessary
for democracy and freedom to prevail and for
the whole of society to be prosperous. Any
attempt to circumvent this system would lead to anarchy and tyranny.
However, Carnegie believed that those who did make it had a
moral obligation to use their fortune to give back to society (The
“Gospel of Wealth”). In particular, this money was to be spent in a
way that did not encourage laziness (charities that only dealt with
symptoms and not the problem) but that created institutions that
made opportunities for anyone with the right character to be
successful and rich.
Carnegie gave money to build 2,509 libraries.
41. Jacob Riis – became a police
reporter in New York City,
where he documented the grim
realities of tenement life. His
detailed accounts of the city’s
poor and of their struggles at
work and at home argued the
need for public housing and laws
to control landlords.
42. Ida Tarbell – revealed the illegal
means used by John D.
Rockefeller to monopolize the
early oil industry in her most
famous work, The History of
the Standard Oil Company. She
argued the need for the federal
government to enforce the
Sherman Anti-Trust Act and
control corruption.
43. Jane Addams - was a selfless
giver of assistance to the
poor. She showed the need
for individual volunteers to
give of their time and
resources to aid the
downtrodden.
44. The central questions are:
Can society create a system
with winners and no losers?
&
If so, how?
45. In your opinion, which of these people (or
solutions) would have made the U.S. (around
1900) a more democratic society?
•Carnegie - the wealthy should give back to the
community.
•Riis - need public housing and laws to control landlords.
•Tarbell - government needs to enforce the Sherman Anti-
Trust Act and control corruption.
•Addams - individual volunteers must give of their time
and resources to aid the downtrodden