city authorities-no amount of private sweeping will keep the tenement free from grime; if the garbage is not properly collected and destroys a tenement house‚ a mother may see her children sicken and die of diseases from which she alone is powerless to shield them. a. She cannot secure untainted meat for her household unless the meat has been inspected by city officials b. Nor provide fresh fruit‚ fruit decayed‚ sale in the tenement districts‚ has been destroyed in the interests of public health
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During a time period of great advancement in technology‚ the late 19th century could appropriately dub itself as an industrial revolution. Rapid transformations of the work-place worsened working conditions and prompted the common laborer to join forces with others in order to create labor unions. Although these unions were fueled with excellent intentions and driven by exasperated motivation‚ these organizations did little to improve the working conditions during this particular time frame. It
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Assignment 1: “America’s Post-Civil War Growing Pains” Reconstruction and Industrialization 1865-1900 Four years after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter the Civil War ended with the Union’s Victory over the Confederacy. Though the war was over‚ there were still many problems that needed to be resolved in order to reunite the states as a nation. The time period in which steps were taken to rebuild the nation is known as reconstruction. Reconstruction lasted from 1865 until 1877. The
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In the second half of the nineteenth century‚ there were many factors that changed the American city. During this time‚ people all around America were transforming their lives to fit the new commercial America‚ and one of the ways that they did this was moving to concentrated‚ urban cities. During the late nineteenth century there was major population growth due to mass immigration‚ which created a new group of workers. As urbanization and industrialization developed simultaneously‚ cities were
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These immigrants came through Ellis Island‚ on the coast of New York‚ and usually lived in tenements. "Free blacks lived on the Lower East Side in the 1850s‚ Irish in the 1860s‚ Germans in the 1870s‚ Chinese in the 1890s‚ Russia-Polish Jews in the 1900s and Italians around
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In the 18 to 19 centuries‚ a spark of events occurred called the Industrial Revolution‚ in which people started to stop using tools and use machines in order to expand the current country’s wealth by using their resources. Many inventions and ideas were created‚ but in order to experiment the wealthy people at the time bought up all the major farm lands. By doing this‚ the experiments were an immediate success while many farmers were forced to move to the cities and work in factories in order to
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big cities like New York City and Philadelphia. In New York City‚ many people were crammed in a one room apartment called tenements. The owners of the buildings charged high rent for small rooms which gave them a very large profit. Also the rooms were usually dark without any bathrooms usually. Since New York face this problem the most‚ they passed the New York State Tenement Act which increased the quality and size of the buildings‚ the law banned the construction of dark‚ small apartments. In districts
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A Review of Revenue Generation in Nigeria Local Government: A Case Study of Ekiti State Destiny Chiagozie Abstract: Local government is faced with varieties of difficulties to source adequate revenue from federal government‚ state government and the internally generated revenue‚ such problems are cogwheel to the smooth running of local government administration. They are; the dishonesty on the part of officers collecting the revenues‚ such as cases of printing receipts by the officers had been
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Chapter 4: The Progressive Era 1890-1920 1865- The Salvation Army was started in London by a Methodist Minister as a street corner mission in the Slums 1889- Salvation Army in NYC: Slum Sisters (2 women) went to tenements to care for the sick I. The Drive for Reform Progressivism: social justice Movement in response to social problems in the 1890s (needed new ideas and efficient honest government A. Origins of Progressivism Came from all walks of life: diff political parties‚ social
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Writing Task_G11_Mid-Year 2014-15 STUDENT VERSION PAGE 1 Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS 11th Grade Mid-Year History Writing Task TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BUILDING HISTORICAL CONTEXT READING THE SOURCE DOCUMENTS DOCUMENT #1: New York City Tenements DOCUMENT #2: The Jungle DOCUMENT #3: Muller v. Oregon‚ Supreme Court Decision DOCUMENT #4: Anti-Lynching Writing DOCUMENT #5: Women’s Suffrage Poster DOCUMENT #6: Map of Conservation Lands DOCUMENT #7: Child Labor and Education Statistics DOCUMENT
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