gilded age (1850 1910) progressivism
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Gilded Age (1850-1910) Progressivism (1901-1921)
THESIS- There were social and economical issues which lead to
political changes.
“A LOT OF JEWS!” Milk and Honey
• 22,800,000• Ellis Island• Better opportunities• Asian Labor
• Asians on west coast• European immigrants
on the East coast
URBAN CRIME AND GHETTO
• Slums and Ghettos • Chinese Exclusion
Act• 1844 • Nativism
MONOPOLIES
• Standard Oil/ U.S. Steel
“Raking Up Some Muck”
• Lewis Hine- bring attention to laborers through photojournalism
• Ida Tarbell- uncovered trusts
• Upton Sinclair- Food and Drug Act
“Who Ya Gonna Call?....
• Theodore Roosevelt • Sherman Antitrust Act • NSC• Food and Drug Act • Coal Strike
TRUST BUSTERS”
• Asia Bryant• Ali Magistro• Hayley Anderson
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