Urban muckrakers
Transcript of Urban muckrakers
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Do Now: Make a list of problems that you think Boston faces today. When you finish rate them in order.
1 is the most serious.
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• Muckrakers: Journalists and citizens who used technology to expose poverty and terrible conditions.
• Progressives: Politicians who tried to reform American society from 1880-1920.
Theodore Roosevelt
George Waring
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First…Gangs
• First street gangs founded.
• Bandit’s Roost, 1887
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Tenements
• Tenements were large buildings for the poor.
• “5 cents a spot” to sleep on the floor for a night
• No bathrooms, windows, air vents
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Tenements
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HomelessnessIf you couldn’t afford the tenement the street was your option…
including kids
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Trash Trash
What do you remember about this from the video?
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Problems facing Cities, 1880-1920
What do you think will be some of the issues facingAmerican cities as they grow this fast?