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Welcome to FloridaStudents.org, your source for Student Tutorials and Resources. This website is freely available to Florida public schools and login is integrated with all districts. Inside this website you will find resources to support your learning in language arts, mathematics, science, civics, and U.S. History.

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Objective 2.9- Goals of the Progressive Era

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( 02:48) Oh, it's time for the mystery document? I bet it involves muck.

The rules here are simple. I guess the author of the mystery document; I'm either correct or I get shocked.

"Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle-rooms, and all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the acid, one by one. Of the butchers and floor-men, the beef-boners and trimmers, and all those who used knives, you could scarcely find a person who had the use of his thumb; time and time again the base of it had been slashed, till it was a mere lump of flesh against which the man pressed the knife to hold it. They would have no nails - they had worn them off pulling hides."

Wow. Well now I am hyper-aware of and grateful for my thumbs. They are just in excellent shape. I am so glad, Stan, that I am not a beef-boner at one of the meat-packing factories written about in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. No shock for me!

Ah, Stan, I can only imagine how long and hard you've worked to get the phrase "beef-boner" into this show and you finally did it, congratulations.

By the way, just a little bit of trivia, The Jungle was the first book I ever read that made me vomit. So that's a review. I don't know if it's positive, but there you go.

Anyway, at the time readers of The Jungle were more outraged by descriptions of rotten meat than by the treatment of meat-packing workers. The Jungle led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906. That's pretty cool for Upton Sinclair, although my books have also lead to some federal legislation such as the HAOTP, which officially declared Hazel and Augustus the nation's OTP.

So to be fair, writers have been describing the harshness of industrial capitalism for decades, so muckraking wasn't really that new. But the use of photography for documentation was. Lewis Hine for instance photographed child laborers in factories and mines, bringing Americans face-to-face with the more than two million children under the age of 15 working for wages. And Hine's photos helped bring about laws that limited child labor.

But even more important than the writing and photographs and magazines when it came to improving conditions for workers was Twitter. What's that? There was no Twitter? Still? What is this, 1812?

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Nerdfighteria Wiki - The Progressive Era: Crash Course US History #27

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( 02:48) Oh, it's time for the mystery document? I bet it involves muck. The rules here are simple. I guess the author of the mystery document; I'm either correct or I get shocked. "Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle-rooms, and all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the acid, one by one.

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Jacob A. Riis arrived in New York in 1870. As the economy slowed, the Danish American photographer found himself among the many other immigrants in the area whose daily life consisted of joblessness, hunger, homelessness, and thoughts of suicide. So when he finally found work as a police reporter in 1877, he made it his mission to reveal the crime and poverty of New York City's East Side slum district to the world.

The resulting book,How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, was published in 1890, and is still considered "a landmark in the annals of social reform." Filled with pictures, sketches and graphic descriptions of the un-imaginable living conditions he found, the book forced the topic of tenement reform to the forefront of every New Yorker's attention.

The photograph above is titled "Bandit's Roost," and shows 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend) in New York City - an area that was considered the most crime-ridden and dangerous part of the entire city.

Riis pulled no punches. Indignant, pedantic, and at times racist ( some believe he was simply playing on the biases of his target audience) his sometimes hard-to-swallow descriptions of the residents of the tenement district are paired with equally hard-to-swallow photography:

Riis and photographers he worked with were among the first Americans to incorporate flash photography into their work. Many of their nighttime photos were captured by removing the lens cap (thus beginning the exposure), igniting a batch of flash powder, and then putting the lens cap back on the camera.

Said to be inspired by Dickens and his writing about London's poor, Riis' work had a profound effect on the lives of those he photographed. A photojournalist who had himself lived in these condition, his book was the agent of social change that New York needed at the time.

Not to say that Riis was a saint. He separated the impoverished into two categories: those deserving of assistance and everyone else. He also never outright called for any government intervention, even though it came anyway. What most people seem to agree on is that his photojournalistic work was based on a genuine, heartfelt sympathy for those people whose lives he documented and helped to improve.

If you'd like to read How the Other Half Lives yourself, you can find it in text and audio formats here and here, respectively. And if you'd like to see a large collection of Jacob Riis photography in one place, you can do so at the Museum Syndicate website here.

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Image credits: Photographs by Jacob A. Riis

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How the Other Half Lives: Photographs of NYC's Underbelly in the 1890s

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Jacob A. Riis arrived in New York in 1870. As the economy slowed, the Danish American photographer found himself among the many other immigrants in the area whose daily life consisted of joblessness, hunger, homelessness, and thoughts of suicide.

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Crash Course Questionnaire: The Progressive Era

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Crash Course Questionnaire: The Progressive Era

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Crash Course: The Progressive Presidents

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Crash Course: The Progressive Presidents

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So as we saw in Crash Course World History, national governments were on the rise from the middle of the 19th century until, basically, now. And in the U.S., corporations became national and then by the 20th century, international, like the British East India Company was kind of an international corporation, but it wasn't the same as Coca Cola, although they did both deal in narcotics! And this mania for nationalization even affected sports, like in baseball the "National" League and the "American" League were formed and in the 1903 they played the first inaccurately named "World Series." I'm sorry, was Botswana invited? Then it's not a World series.

Anyway, the rise of a strong national government was seen as an alternative to peoples' lives being controlled by provincial city and state governments or by ever growing corporations. Like Herbert Croly, editor of the New Republic, thought that to achieve the Jeffersonian, democratic, self-determination, ideal of individual freedom, the country needed to employ Hamiltonian government intervention in the economy, and he wasn't the only one who believed that.

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Nerdfighteria Wiki - Progressive Presidents: Crash Course US History #29

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So as we saw in Crash Course World History, national governments were on the rise from the middle of the 19th century until, basically, now. And in the U.S., corporations became national and then by the 20th century, international, like the British East India Company was kind of an international corporation, but it wasn't the same as Coca Cola, although they did both deal in narcotics!

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Crash Course: The Progressive Presidents

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Crash Course: The Progressive Presidents

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Causes and Effects of the Progressive Era

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Causes and Effects of the Progressive Era

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Ch 7 The Progressive Era Flashcards | Quizlet

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Start studying Ch 7 The Progressive Era. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.

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Progressive Problems and Solution Graphic Organizer

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Progressive Problems and Solution Graphic Organizer

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Pondering the Progressive Era packet (1)

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Period 6.7 Progressive Speed Dating.Kreger