MONDAY- 1900 Bradley Gasoline Runabout, 1903 Ford Model A, William Harley and Arthur Davidson motorcycles, Bus in 1925, Airplanes, US airplane in WWI 1918
Problems: Lack of Safe Drinking Water -Solutions
-Late 1800's scientist had proven that diseases were spread through unsafe drinking water.
-In early 1900's chlorine was added to water to help eliminate diseases.
Federal regulation of drinking water quality began in 1914 which continued to strengthen over the decades.
Problems: Disease was common and streets were filthy -Solutions
-Horses were replaced, eliminating the manure problem
-Added chlorine to water.
-Introduction of indoor plumbing
-Gorge A. Waring Jr. -New York City -1895
-Organized modern recycling, street sweeping and garbage collection
Problems: Crime -Solutions
-Organized Police Force
-Police became full time employees of the city (not volunteers)
-In 1838- Boston established the first American police force
-New York City -1845
-Chicago -1851
- By the 1880's all major US cities had municipal police forces in places
-1911- Fingerprints are first accepted by US courts as a reliable means of identification
Problems: Fires -Solutions
-better building codes
-full time paid firefighters
-1853, Cincinnati became the first full-time, paid fire fighters in the US
Problems: Poverty due to low pay at work -Solutions
-Labor Union
-Minimum wage laws
-Shorter hours
-Child Labor laws
Why did "the lecture" become a common strategy for teachers?
-most were immigrants and they couldn't read or write but they could listen
How is our school system set up like a factory during the Industrial Revolution?
-assembly line/factory
-they were used to it
Segregation
-Literacy test (made sure blacks could read and write before they could vote)
-separation of racism
-poll tax (had to pay tax to vote, most blacks couldn't)
-Grandfather Clause (1-1-1867)
TUESDAY-
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v Ferguson 1896 - "Separate but Equal" -Separate and unequal in reality
Lynching and violence -KKK
WEDNESDAY-
The Progressive Era 1890-1920 period of widespread social activism and political reform across the US
Liberals (Roosevelt & Taft & Wilson)
THURSDAY- work day
FRIDAY-
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