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Problems at the Turn of the
Century
muckraker: a
journalist who wrote
about social, environmental, and
political problems Americans faced in
the early 1900s
• Teddy Roosevelt gave them the name
because “"raked the mud of society.“
Rise
of industry = rise of urbanization:
the growth of cities- Drawn in by jobs
and amusements
U.S. becoming an urban, industrial
society with an increasingly diverse
population
Mechanization = more production
More production= new methods of
selling goods
• Montgomery Ward and other catalogs
• Department Stores
People lived in slum tenements
• New York's Lower East Side, for example, housed
450,000 people in 1900. =than 300,000 people per
square mile.
Poor
living conditions because of poor
infrastructure: the facilities or
equipment required for an organization
or community to function, including
roads, sewage and power systems, and
transportation
Lack of fire protection and sanitation
Factory
work boring, strenuous, and
dangerous
Unsafe products
• No Gov. regulations
• Meat- the Jungle
• Medicine- Coca Cola
Reduction
of Natural Resources
• Ranching, farming, logging
• extractive industries: businesses that take
mineral resources from the earth
Coal, oil, etc.
Pollution
• Factories, animal waste, household sewage
political machines: an organization consisting
of full-time politicians whose main goal was to
retain political power and the money and
influence that went with it
• Tammany Hall: a political machine in New York City-
Boss William Tweed
• patronage: the practice of politicians giving jobs to
friends and supporters
• Rigged elections, money from entertainment, helped
people for votes, Corruption
Pendelton Act-an 1883 federal law that limited
patronage by creating a civil service
commission to administer exams for certain
nonmilitary government jobs
During
the late 1800s, the gap between rich and
poor grew wider
African Americans
• Not many gains since civil war
• Found ways to not allow them to vote
• Many moved North
Women
• Worked outside the home
• Attended college
Families
• Public education expanded but many can’t go b/c need
children to work
• temperance movement: a reform movement calling for
moderation in drinking alcohol- Seen as way to improve
family life