How did we fix our giant list of problems in the US during the turn of the 20th century? Here's some info!

1. Solving the Problems!

2. You have 2 minutes to discuss a problem that
was occurring in the US during the late 1800s
to early 1900s.
Group 1 – Tenements
Group 2 – Sanitation
Group 3 - Water
Group 4 – Business Issues
Group 5 – Government Corruption

3.  VOCABULARY:
 tenements
 sweatshops
 labor union
 Blue Laws
 progressives

4. Read pg. 226
 Progressives were people who helped
fight for those people who couldn’t
fight for themselves.
 The Progressive Movement
developed to address problems that
arose with the growth of cities and
industries during the late 1800s and
early 1900s.

5. Choose the that title best completes this graphic organizer?
A. Concerns of Big Business in the Late 19th
Century
B. Concerns of the Middle Class in the Late 19th
Century
C. Concerns of Prohibitionists in the Late 19th
Century
D. Concerns of the U.S. Government in the Late 19th
Century
TURN & TALK: Study the graphic organizer to answer the question.

6. Read pg. 264, 266-267
Some Famous Progressives/Muckrakers:
Upton Sinclair was an author who wrote The Jungle which
was a book about issues with the meat packing factories
Ida Tarbell was an author who wrote about trusts
President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
• was a “trust-buster”
• passed Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug
Act to help with issues within the food and drug
industries
• created national parks to preserve and conserve our
natural resources.
Lewis Hine traveled the country and took pictures of

7. Muckrakers wrote
articles about corrupt
business practices and
unsafe conditions.

8. Read pg. 226
 Overpopulation Fixes:
Public Baths were created to help with
water and sanitation issues!
Building codes were enforced to help
with unsafe and unsanitary housing!
City parks and beautification projects
were created!

9.  Immigration Fixes:
Immigrants often lived in communities with others
from their home countries this helped to make
adjusting to life in American easier.
Settlement houses were created to help immigrants
adjust to life in the US. They were large buildings
in crowded immigrant communities.
The workers provided services for immigrants
and helped to remedy poverty.
The Hull House in Chicago established by
Jane Addams was a settlement house.
Settlement House services might include:
library nursery art studios
post office gymnasium theater
kitchen dining room music school
day care job assistance medical facilities

10. Read pg. 265
 Business Fixes:
Progressives fought against child labor!
Progressives fought to pass laws to make
monopolies and trusts ILLEGAL.
Progressives worked to make factories
safer by taking and distributing
photographs of unsafe practices.
Progressives thought that work days
shouldn’t be so long
Progressives didn’t like labor unions.

11. Read pgs. 195-197
 Remember Labor unions helped fight for…
 shorter workdays
 better wages
 safer workplaces
 They did this through…
 Negotiations between the workers and the owners
 strikes (sometimes these got violent)
 Samuel Gompers and Mary Harris Jones were
known for being strong union leaders.

12.  Moral Fixes:
The 18th
Amendment was passed
stating that alcohol was illegal!
This was also called Prohibition.
Blue Laws (also known as Sunday
laws) were designed to restrict some
shopping, or ban the sale of certain
items on specific days, most often on
Sundays.