Nov. 6th - Nov. 10th - Blogs

Monday

Dumping garbage in New York Harbor- Late 1800’s (Picture)
Picture of fire and destruction in the city
Problem: Cramped, Old, Dirty Housing-Tenements
- Solution: Cities put restrictions on building wood-frame structures in the center of the city
- Cities encouraged the construction of lower-income dwellings on the city’s outskirts
- Tenement House Law-1901
  - Outlawed the construction of new tenements on 25-foot lots and mandated improved sanitary conditions, fire escapes and access to light
  - Current tenements were updated and more than 200,000 new apartments were built over the next 15 years
  - Lack of Good Transportation
    - Electric Streetcars-late 1800’s, early 1900’s
    - Automobiles
      - There were 300 cars in the United States in 1895, 78,000 in 1905, 459,000 in 1910 and 1,7 million in 1914
      - Pictures of the first cars
      - 1900 Bradley Gasoline Runabout
      - 1903 Ford Model A
      - Picture of Arthur and Harley Davidson 1914
      - Picture of one of the WW1 airplanes
      - Drinking water
        Chlorine was added to the water to help eliminate disease
        Streets were filthy
        Horses were replaced, eliminating the manure problem
        Added chlorine to water
        Introduction of indoor plumbing
        George A. Waring Jr.-NYC 1895
        Organized modern recycling, street sweeping and garbage collection
        Early 1900’s early Garbage Collection (picture)
        Crime
        Organized Police Force
        Police became full time employees of city-not volunteers
        Boston: 1838
        NYC: 1845
        Chicago: 1851
        1911- Fingerprints are first accepted by US courts as a reliable means of identification
        NYPD-1895-TR
        Problem: Fires
        Full time, paid firefighters
        In 1853, Cincinnati became the first full-time paid fire fighters in the US
        Already mentioned better building codes
        Problem: Poverty due to low pay at work
        Labor Unions
        Minimum wage laws
        Shorter hours
        Child labor laws
        Boss William Marcy Tweed

Tuesday

Talking about forum posts
Segregation
- Literacy test
- Poll tax
- Grandfather Clause (1-1-1867)
- Jim Crow (roots in 1828) Laws
- Plessy v Ferguson-1896
  - ‘Separate but Equal’
  - Separate and unequal in reality
Lynching and violence-KKK
Slides

Wednesday

Finishing slides
The Progressive Era 1890-1920
- How did the progressives make the US a better, fairer, and more democratic country?
- Group work

Thursday

Working at the group project
Music quiz

Friday

Finishing group presentations

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