The Progressive Movement was started as a response to political and business abuses. Many people were suffering from unhealthy living and working conditions. There were also injustices in the government. Reforms were initiated by individuals and groups of people to improve this. One problem people were facing was women’s voting rights. Beginning in the mid 1800’s‚ several woman suffrage supporters did whatever they could to fight for their right to vote. Women were not allowed to vote until 1920
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corporations were located. However‚ these jobs would lead two very little pay at all‚ not even enough to sustain a house that was relatively nice. The houses the workers could afford were in the cities and called tenements‚ they were masses of poor people all live together 2-4 families in each tenement in the apartment type building. This led to really bad conditions due to the lack of plumbing and bathrooms in each tournament. So they had to find other means of getting rid of this waste and bathing‚ like
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struggled to survive‚ the streets were jammed with people‚ horses‚ push carts and garbage. There houses were known as Tenements‚ Tenements where usually six to seven stories high and divided into small apartments. The tenements were in very poor living conditions‚ they had no windows‚ heat‚ or indoor bathrooms‚ and they had to fit 10 people per room. Since the slums and tenements where in such poor conditions disease and sickness occurred rapidly. But despite the poor conditions the population in
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“Drew up outside the brown tenement… Somebody has written in chalk the words YA BASS” The author describes the tenements as brown which the reader interprets as a connotation of poverty and dirt‚ which casts an interesting contrast to Mr Jackson himself who arrived driving a “black polished car” and wearing a “square red ring”. The words “polished” and “red ring” indicate wealth and pride‚ even though he seems proud to come from such a poor area. “He looked up at the tenement with the cheerful animation
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New York harbor. When the immigrants arrived they were poor so they lived in what was called tenements because they were cheap. Tenements were single-family homes carved up into multi-family dwellings or apartment buildings. Each apartment had only three rooms: a living or front room‚ a kitchen‚ and a tiny bedroom. Every so often seven or more people lived in each apartment. Not only was the tenement crowded‚ but there were no bathrooms inside until 1905.
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The American Industrial Revolution was a time of growth. Starting from the early 1800s the way of life started to slowly progress.There were many types of growth including economic‚population‚and agriculture. It had many positives and negatives ‚but the positives overshadowed the negatives. There were also things that were both positive and negative throughout the Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution there were many positive changes happening. Factories were being
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Helen Keller was an important influence for the deaf and blind. They also had a woman they could relate to pushing for reform. She wrote numerous magazine articles on the prevention of blindness and the education and special problems of the blind. A group that didn’t receive much benefit from her work may be the less fortunate. With no information provided‚ we don’t know if there were funds provided for the less fortunate people‚ to be able to afford and benefit from the program services. This did
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conditions of the poor that resided in the slums of Dublin. In the early 1900’s‚ Dublin had the worst housing conditions of any city in the United Kingdom. By 1911‚ over 26‚000 families lived in 5‚000 tenements. Over 20‚000 lived in one room and another 5‚000 had only two rooms. Of the 5‚000 tenements‚ over 1‚500 were deemed as being unfit for human habitation. The living conditions in Dublin were only made worse with the extremely high rate of disease. Because of the cramped living spaces‚ diseases
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how places such as the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park became stages for outsiders to see the scale on which wealth differed in the city. I believe that the best part of the documentary was the portion explaining and going into depth about the tenements and poverty in some parts of the city. It showed images that helped viewers translate the situation that they’re being told about into real images and events. I believe that Ric Burns did a great job representing the Gilded Age of New York City‚
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