Transcript Progressivism

Progressivism and the
Age of Reform
Progressivism and the
Age of Reform
• Tenement Reform
• Child Labor
• Trusts
• Political Reform •
Anti-Lynching Crusade
• The Election of 1912
Tenement Reform
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Tenements
Jacob Riis: Danish immigrant, journalist
One of the first to use flash photography
How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Reform
Tenement Reform
This is a
photo Jacob
Riis took of
immigrants
in a New
York City
tenement in
1890.
• How many people can you make out in this picture?
• How big does the room appear to be?
• Do you see any windows in the room?
• Where does the lighting for the photo appear to be
coming from?
• Describe the expressions on the people’s faces.
• What does this tell you about the moment at which the
picture was taken?
• What objects do you see in the apartment?
• What type of furniture can you see?
• How would you describe the overall condition of the
apartment?
Imagine that
you are a
middle-class
New Yorker
who saw this
photo at one of
Riis’s lectures.
• How do you think you would have reacted to it?
• Would it have made you more or less likely to support
tenement reform? Why?
Child Labor
• Traditional children’s
work
• Effect of the Industrial
Revolution
• National Child Labor
Committee
• Lewis Hine
• Reform