Mr.bruns is here an we are continuing the chapter 9 projects.
Muckrakers
- Muckrakers were people who wrote for popular magazines about the injustices of the government
- Mainly focused on exposing crime an corruption
- relegations of public muckrakiong led to public outcry, an investigations
- Upton Sinclair-published a book about the conditions of meat packing
- Ray stannard baker-published a book about conditions of coal mining (Ida Tarbell)
- Nellie bly-original muckraker published a book called "Ten days in the mad house" trying to expose patient abuse.
Conservation
- 1887-40 million acres are set aside for national forest reserve
- lands were overused
- roosevelt condemned that the worlds natural resources are not replaceable
- nation reclamation act of 1902-new land act
Aiding the poor
Social gospel movement-preached salvation through the serice to the poor.
Made working conditions better
House settlements
Community centers in slum neighborhoods that provide assisstance to immigrants an the poor
Ran mainly by middle class people
Jane Addams-one of the most influential members of the movement
1890 Janie Poter Barrett-locust street social settlement. First african american settlement house
Hampton,Virgina
By1910-400 settlement houses were across the nation
Regulating Food and Drugs
False advertising
no labels
food contained drugs
people became addicted
drugs could be dispensed anywhere
Efficent in the work place
Assembly line was invented
Created more managable work for women and children
got work done in a more timely manner
some people coulndt handle it because it moved so quickly
Breaking down the work
Discovered seperating big jobs into smaller jobs was more efficent
had the physically comptent do a of the hard labor
mentally comptent do the mental labor
nearly doubled production in mant factories
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