DBQ
Erin Garcia
Social Studies P6
Due: November 4
DBQ Progressive Era Essay
Where will you put your milion dollars?
Did you know that there is an underside to America that people do not talk about?
During
1900’s to 1920 in America, there have been many troubles in which a reform movement called
Progressivism is working to try and fixing these problems. Accordingly to Aunt Bessie where will you put your million dollars? is the task at hand in which to use the million dollars to the most 3 needy causes for the progressive who helps fix the problems and therefore I will be giving $600,000 to improve food safety, $300,000 to the groups who are trying to end child labor, and lastly the remaining $100,000 will be used to help stop deforestation. To the most needy cause I will be giving a $600,000 to improve food safety. According to
Upton Sinclair’s, “The Jungle”, “the water from the leaky roofs would drip over it and thousands of rats would race about on it” (Document D). This evidence tells us how horrible and disgusting the place was and in addition “these rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread and meat would go into the hoppers together” (Document D). It explains the workers, apparently, did not care what they put into the hoppers because the dead rats that had been poisoned were put into the machines along with the meat. Due to t his quotations from the document this shows how horrible the conditions of the
meat packing company in Chicago were during the specific time period and the people who eat this kind of meat could get sick or they could even die because of the poison that was mixed in the meat. Next to the most needy cause I will
Social Studies P6
Due: November 4
DBQ Progressive Era Essay
Where will you put your milion dollars?
Did you know that there is an underside to America that people do not talk about?
During
1900’s to 1920 in America, there have been many troubles in which a reform movement called
Progressivism is working to try and fixing these problems. Accordingly to Aunt Bessie where will you put your million dollars? is the task at hand in which to use the million dollars to the most 3 needy causes for the progressive who helps fix the problems and therefore I will be giving $600,000 to improve food safety, $300,000 to the groups who are trying to end child labor, and lastly the remaining $100,000 will be used to help stop deforestation. To the most needy cause I will be giving a $600,000 to improve food safety. According to
Upton Sinclair’s, “The Jungle”, “the water from the leaky roofs would drip over it and thousands of rats would race about on it” (Document D). This evidence tells us how horrible and disgusting the place was and in addition “these rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread and meat would go into the hoppers together” (Document D). It explains the workers, apparently, did not care what they put into the hoppers because the dead rats that had been poisoned were put into the machines along with the meat. Due to t his quotations from the document this shows how horrible the conditions of the
meat packing company in Chicago were during the specific time period and the people who eat this kind of meat could get sick or they could even die because of the poison that was mixed in the meat. Next to the most needy cause I will