20th+Century+America

=20th Century America=

Natural Resource Map
Use the map below to determine where the best locations would be for a steel mill.

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In Groups each will be assigned one of the following Captains of Industry
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Do Now:
How does a luxury become a necessity?

Ford Revolutionizes Industry
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Watch the video Entrepreneurs doing good by doing well

Does this change your opinion of business tycoons and the market free economy of the United States.

Read the following Inside Story;  //**Could you live on $133 a year?**// When the Industrial Revolution began, businesses did pretty much as they pleased. Few officials worried about the workers, and by the late 1800s there were more workers than jobs.  In October 1883 Thomas O’Donnell, a part-time textile worker, appeared before a Senate committee looking into labor conditions. He was one of many who could not find full-time work. O’Donnell’s worn clothes contrasted with the formal dress of the senators. He painted a devastating picture of life for the working poor. New machines required smaller workers, encouraging the use of child labor. Factories fired adults and hired men who had sons who could work. “Whoever has a boy has work,” O’Donnell said, “and whoever has no boy stands no chance.”  “How much money have you got?” a senator asked. “I have not got a cent in the house,” O’Donnell answered, “didn’t have when I came out this morning.” In fact, he, his wife, and two children had lived on only $16 for the past three months. Over the entire year, the family income had amounted to about $133 from a few weeks’ work in the textile mill. O’Donnell dug clams for food and picked up wood for heating. His children were often sickly because they lacked food or clothes or shoes. For workers like O’Donnell, there seemed to be no way to escape from these conditions.
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How can workers increase their wages and position within companies? In groups analyze the following worker strikes Great Rail Road Strike

Pullman Strike

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answer the following in your groups 1. Why did the workers strike? 2. How did management react to the strike? 3. How did these strikes end?

What do each of these strikes have in common?

Design A Class Contract:
Break students into small groups and ask them to provide a list of demands they would want to improve their working conditions in class;
 * each group should choose a representative to negotiate with the teacher about conditions.
 * teacher should read each demand out loud placing the ones for negotiation on the board (get rid of money insurance or rules dictated by school)
 * some demands teacher may grant without discussion others will be bargained by class and teacher
 * demands accepted and revisions made should be on the board
 * demands that need approval from administration should be tabled until other negotiations can be made
 * finished agreement should be voted on by students and signed by teacher and students with a copy placed in the room.

Read and mark-up each of these articles



Analyze using the left column of your two column notes paper ___ =Wealth distribution during the Progressive Era= Read the following story and answer the question that follows.    //**Do you enjoy a walk in the park?**// If so, thank Frederick Law Olmsted. He and his firm planned and built many of America’s most beautiful public parks. His ideas had a strong influence on park design throughout the country.  Before becoming a landscape architect—a term he invented—Olmsted studied engineering, ran a farm, and worked as a journalist. In 1850, when he was 28, Olmsted and some friends took a walking tour of Europe. There he admired the many public and private parks as well as the elegant layouts of country estates.  By 1856 the City of New York had acquired 840 acres on what was then the edge of town. Olmsted and architect Calvert Vaux won a competition to design the city’s new Central Park. Their plan kept the feel of a natural landscape but added walks and parkways so that people could stroll comfortably and enjoy the area.  Central Park was one of the first large U.S. city parks. Olmsted thought that expanses of green space and trees improved the quality of city life. “A park is a work of art,” he said. Every detail—every blade of grass—mattered.  During the Civil War, Olmsted was in charge of medical supplies and sanitation for the Union army. After the war he returned to park design. For the next 30 years he created peaceful havens in Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, Montreal, and other cities. His firm also designed landscapes for the U.S. Capitol and White House grounds and for national parks from Maine to California.
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 * How has Boston of 2000 changed from Boston of 1900?**

Create Comments, Connections, Questions for the left side of these two column notes.


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=Progressivism=  Riis went to places that were comfortably out of view of most Americans: the tenements of the Lower East Side. “Someone had to tell the facts; that is one reason I became a reporter,” he said. He described a room where six adults and five children lived: “One, two, three beds are there, if the old boxes and heaps of foul straw can be called by that name; a broken stove with crazy pipe from which the smoke leaks at every joint … piles of rubbish in the corner. The closeness and smell are appalling.”  Words could barely describe the squalor. So Riis learned to use a camera. With a new invention, flash powder, he photographed dingy rooms and hallways. He showed his photos in public lectures. His 1889 article in //Scribner’s Magazine//, “How the Other Half Lives,” became a best-selling book. Riis’s fame helped him press the city to improve living conditions for the poor and to build parks and schools.
 * //**How did a photographer help the nation’s urban poor?**// When **Jacob Riis** wrote about the lives of impoverished immigrants in New York City, he was telling a familiar story: his own. Riis emigrated from Denmark in 1870, at the age of 21. He had trouble finding jobs and lived in poverty. By 1877, however, he was a police reporter for the //New York Tribune,// a voice for social reform. ||

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company was a tragedy waiting to happen. Crowded conditions, a lack of workplace safety laws, negligent owners, and an ill-prepared fire department combined to create a scene of devastation. Most victims were immigrant girls, some as young as 15 or 16. The Asch Building, where the Triangle Shirtwaist Company was located, was not unusual in its lack of fire safety precautions. Typical of many urban high-rise buildings at the time, it had inadequate fire escapes, no fire alarms, and no sprinkler system.

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 * Drawing Conclusions** What was the biggest obstacle preventing the workers’ escape from the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?
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